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Request Appointment Healthy Lifestyle Slide show: 10 great health foods Sections 1. Basics 1. Nutrition basics 2. Healthy diets 3. Healthy cooking 4. Healthy menus and shopping strategies 5. Nutritional supplements 2. In-Depth 3. Expert Answers 4. Expert Blog 5. Multimedia 6. Resources 7. News From Mayo Clinic Products and services Number 1 hospital in the nation by U.S. News and World Report Free E-newsletter Subscribe to Housecall Our general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics. Sign up now Slide show: 10 great health foods Health foods like salad are part of a healthy diet Previous Next 1 of 12 Give your diet a healthy boost with these 10 health foods. They're among your best bets for eating well because they meet at least three of the following criteria: * Good or excellent source of fiber, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients * High in phytonutrients and antioxidant compounds, such as vitamins A and E and beta carotene * May help reduce risk of heart disease and other health conditions * Readily available Find out more about these health foods and how easy it is to include them in your diet. * * * * * * * * * * * * + Share + Tweet See more Multimedia References 1. Fish and omega-3 fatty acids. American Heart Association. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/General/Fish-and-Omega-3-Fatty-Acids_ UCM_303248_Article.jsp. Accessed Feb. 5, 2013. 2. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 25. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. http://ndb.nal.usda.gov. Accessed Feb. 5, 2013. 3. Duyff RL. American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide. 4th ed. 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[title-HWE.gif] The Healthiest Way of Eating is eating for maximum nutrition and enjoyment. Eating is one of the few things we do every single day. And since most of us eat 3 or more meals a day we are eating over 1,000 meals a year! That means we have the opportunity to make 1,000 healthy decisions each year to positively affect our health. The Healthiest Way of Eating is designed to help you make decisions that will optimize your health. And it can be done in 3 easy steps: 1. Select health-promoting, nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods 2. Combine them in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan to fulfill your nutritional requirements 3. Use cooking methods that retain maximum nutrition and flavor The Healthiest Way of Eating is for those for whom eating is not merely a reaction to "hunger" but for those who want to eat for nourishment and better health. This new Healthiest Way of Eating goes far beyond taking in calories to satisfy your hunger; it is a way to enjoy foods that will nourish your body. If you want to eat healthier, the Healthiest Way of Eating does all the work for you by taking out all of the guesswork and making it creative, fun, easy, and enjoyable. Nutrient-Richness is the Paradigm at the Core of The Healthiest Way of Eating Nutrient-richness is the key to the Healthiest Way of Eating. It is the measurement of how many nutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein, fiber, carbohydrates, omega-3 fatty acids, and phytonutrients) you will receive from your food for the least number of calories. Nutrient-Rich World's = Maximum Nutrients Minimal Calories Your body requires over 50 vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids every day to operate efficiently and keep you healthy. All of these nutrients can be found in the nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods. Why the World's Healthiest Foods Should Be Your Foods of Choice The World's Healthiest Foods are among the most nutrient-rich foods in the world and therefore help promote optimal health by providing you with maximum nutrition and taste for the least number of calories. They ensure your body is receiving the necessary amount of nutrients it needs. Along with vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids they are concentrated in antioxidants and phytonutrients, which combat free radicals that can damage DNA and cellular structures, as well as act as powerful anti-inflammatory agents. We always recommend selecting nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods for our body to function optimally and inspire well-being. The Healthiest Way of Eating may help you enjoy more energy, strong bones, healthy skin, good sleep, and other aspects of optimal wellness. Alternatively, a diet that emphasizes nutrient-poor foods may lead to symptoms of nutrient deficiency: low energy, unhealthy skin, poor heart health, an inability to sleep, and reduced ability to cope with stress. Our List of World's Healthiest Foods highlights more than 100 foods, which I have selected to be among the world's healthiest after 40 years of traveling around the globe searching for the foods associated with cultures recognized for their exceptional health and longevity. For each food you will find a description of the food; how to select, store, prepare, and cook the food; its health benefits; and its nutritional profile. The list of World's Healthiest Foods helps you to select which of the nutrient-rich foods fit your personal tastes and nutritional needs. There may also be times when you are interested in increasing the intake of a particular nutrient. In that case click on the link to the -nutrient in which you are interested from our list of Essential Nutrients and find which of the World's Healthiest Foods is most concentrated in that particular nutrient. And every week we feature one of the World's Healthiest Foods on the home page—a food that is currently in season, a food that is currently in season when it has the best flavor and is the least expensive. [HWE-plan.jpg] Enjoy the World's Healthiest Foods in the Powerful Healthiest Way of Eating Plan You will love the foods in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan: sweet fruit, rich in antioxidants vitamins, minerals, and fiber; great tasting vegetables, rich in immune-boosting nutrients; crunchy fresh salads that are full of enzymes and alive with flavor; great omega-3-rich fish recipes; beans and legumes are rich in folate, protein, and fiber; and nuts and seeds that are great for snacks. For over 30 years I was told it would be impossible for food alone (without taking supplements) to supply enough nutrients to promote optimal health, but that's what the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan is all about. It supplies it with you with over 100% of most nutrients your body needs. Each nutrient has a specific role to play in the regeneration of the approximately 300 billion new cells created by our bodies each day! For these cells to be healthy, proper nutritional intake is a must. And because nutrients work synergistically, the Plan provides the variety of nutrient-rich foods nutrients to support the synergistic interaction of nutrients. The nutrients concentrated in the World's Healthiest Foods featured in the the Plan also provide anti-inflammatory protection for a healthier cardiovascular system and a stronger immune system as well as protection against the free radical activity that can damage cellular structures and DNA. The Plan provides over 100% Daily Value of many important nutrients from foods. These include: * Protein-rich foods that scientific studies have found to promote healthy skin, hair, and nails * Vitamin K-rich foods that scientific studies have found to promote the absorption of calcium and prevent osteoporosis * Vitamin A-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help support a healthy immune system, prevent frequent colds and flues, and promote healthy vision * Vitamin C-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help reduce free radical damage to cells. * Fiber-Rich Foods that scientific studies have found to help support the health of the digestive system * Folate-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help support cardiovascular health. And many more. . . . The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan Promotes Synergistic Interaction of Nutrients Nutrients do not work alone but in concert (synergistically) with other nutrients in foods. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan works to promote beneficial nutrient interaction and allows for the synergistic reactions between nutrients essential for optimal health. The benefit of deriving nutrients from eating fresh whole foods such as those included on the list of the World's Healthiest Foods is that they provide not only an abundance of individual nutrients but also the variety necessary for their optimal function. One good example of how the synergistic interaction between nutrients in foods works is in regards to bone health. The importance of calcium is almost always featured as the nutrient necessary for maintaining strong, healthy bones. The reality is that strong bones also need vitamins D and K, magnesium, and trace minerals like boron. All of these nutrients are not concentrated in one foods but in a combination of foods. Of course, milk and yogurt supply are great sources of calcium, green leafy vegetables provide you with vitamin K, and salmon is a wonderful source of those hard-to-find omega-3 fatty acids. So, as you can see by eating a range of delicious foods you'll enjoy great taste and promote better bone health. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan was designed to take the guesswork of healthy eating and make it fun, easy, and enjoyable. It provides a menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even snacks for 7 days. After following the Plan, you'll become a master on how to mix and match recipes so that you can enjoy delicious meals that will help you take control of your health. And you won't feel deprived or hungry because nutrients like fiber help keep you feeling satiated and satisfied. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan Can Help Save You Money The Healthiest Way of Eating can save you money since it will inspire you to prepare more of your meals at home rather than buying take-out food or eating out at restaurants. By purchasing food on sale or sold at local farmers' markets you also save additional money. You can therefore purchase these powerful health-promoting foods for no more than what you are spending on food now if you eat healthy and even less if you regularly eat out. And they are much less expensive than supplements. Also when you take into consideration all of the health benefits derived from the Healthiest Way of Eating and the Plan you actually get more for your money because it provides you with health insurance that really works! In the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan you will learn how to get over 100% of most nutrients. The Healthiest Way of Eating Includes the New Healthiest Way of Cooking The Healthiest Way of Cooking is an integral part of the Healthiest Way of Eating. George was inspired to develop the Healthiest Way of Cooking (link to cooking) when he found that traditional cooking methods could lose up to 50-80% of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients found in food! To George that meant that even if he was purchasing the most nutrient-rich foods available, it was possible that he was not enjoying many of their health-promoting benefits because if the foods were not cooked properly he was not enjoying the full range of their nutrient potential. The new Healthiest Way of Cooking will take you out of the dark age of traditional cooking. You will discover how great vegetables can taste and how tenderizing their fibers by cooking them al dente helps release their naturally wonderful and complex flavors. We have long been aware that no matter how good a food is for you, no one will eat it if it doesn't taste good. That's why George placed equal importance on maximizing nutrition and taste when developing his Healthiest Way of Cooking. And because the Healthiest Way of Cooking is quick and easy, it is a perfect fit in today's busy lifestyle. To put George's cooking methods into practice WHFoods.org website provides you with at-home cooking demonstrations, WHFoods Kitchen, and an extensive library of hundreds of recipes , many of which you will find in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan. From breakfast to dinner, soups to salads, vegetable side dishes to vegetable entrees, you can find delicious recipes that will entice your whole family and save you time and money. Most recipes can be prepared in 5 minutes or less using 3 or fewer ingredients! Using these recipes—such as 15-Minute Salmon, dinner salad with Mediterranean Dressing, 5-Minute Broccoli, and Blueberry Parfait — you can even learn how to prepare a 4-course meal in just 15 minutes! If you don't want to worry about what to prepare for a meal, we recommend you sign up for our free Weekly Newsletter and Daily Tips on the home page. Each day you will receive a Recipe of the Day that provides you with great ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. You will also receive a Q&A about a food or nutrition topic to help you learn more about The Healthiest Way of Eating. You can also learn more about our Healthiest Way of Cooking from George's new Healthiest Way of Cooking DVD and cookbook. A Lifestyle Change to The Healthiest Way of Eating Modern science now concurs that among all lifestyle factors, no single factor is more important to our health than the food we eat. According to healthcare experts, our best bet in avoiding chronic preventable disease rates does not lie in more expensive medical procedures, or in more sophisticated technology, or in further specialization with respect to testing and medication. Our best bet, experts agree, lies in the simple, everyday practice of a lifestyle change in the foods that we eat. We could be saving millions of lives and several hundred billion dollars in healthcare costs related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer if we would eat more health-promoting, nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest Foods—foods that the peer-reviewed medical research has already suggested may help prevent these diseases. Instead of spending more money and having more disease (our current situation), we would be spending less money and having less disease! What's also remarkable about the chronic preventable disease patterns described above is the degree to which they overlap when it comes to dietary prevention. Based on current research, we do not seem to need one diet for preventing heart disease, a second diet for preventing diabetes, a third diet for preventing obesity, and a fourth diet for preventing cancer. What seems to be needed in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases is that the changes in the foods we eat move in the same general direction: decreased intake of sugar, salt, animal fat, and processed foods, and increased intake of health-promoting, nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest Foods. Dietary prevention in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases calls for a greater focus on health-promoting foods and a healthier way of eating that can be followed and enjoyed day after day, year after year. Nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest foods are the keys to a healthy lifestyle. It is the source of good health and energy. Following The Healthiest Way of Eating can benefit all of us. Eating more nutrient-rich foods, cooking them properly, and learning about how to create a better way of eating by following the Plan will help you feel stronger and healthier. You can have more energy, enjoy better sleep and less stress, and promote general optimal health. We have created this website to serve as a comprehensive resource that leaves you with no guessing about what you have to do to eat healthier. It offers you all the tools you'll need to make eating healthier an integral part of your healthy lifestyle. Testimonials about the Healthiest Way of Eating: I discovered your site and your list of the healthiest foods a few years back. It has been my blueprint for my Healthiest Way of Eating since then. - Annie I really enjoy your site and your Healthiest Way of Eating so much info in a concise form. I have little time to surf the web. You provide so much up to date info. I am in and out of the net, armed with knowledge to keep myself and my family healthy. You are a true blessing. Thanks. - Mary Thank you: Hi, I just wanted to tell you how I appreciate You, your Healthiest Way of Eating website, recipes and tips that you send. I just had the most delicious lunch that I have had in along time, thanks to your ideas. Thank you, I am also shedding those pounds. - Rosemarie From all the books and materials I already studied on the Healthiest Way of Eating specific for kids, I found "The World Healthiest Foods" to be the best of the best related to what people need to know and implement into their life. You inspired me when I design the program on nutrition for kids, and I believe you need to have all the credits. - Mario I have been using your website as a tool for me and my family for the Healthiest Way of Eating. I have lost approx 7 pounds in 3 weeks along with exercise. I feel great and just wanted to thank you for all the work that goes into your website. Just knowing the benefits of the different foods has motivated us to eat better. Thanks again. - TI I recently stumbled upon your website (and soon after ordered your amazing book The World's Healthiest Foods!). 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Add them to your meals and get on the fast track to a super-healthy body. From the editors of Fitness Comments (0) Back [101265278.jpg?itok=XLkNJvdX] Healthy Food #1: Lemons [101173077_4.jpg?itok=Fcw5iGDZ] Healthy Food #2: Broccoli [101265247_1.jpg?itok=nZ-KnuBz] Healthy Food #3: Dark Chocolate [101265248_0.jpg?itok=alnbk6C6] Healthy Food #4: Potatoes [101098916_0.jpg?itok=M8coGCFZ] Healthy Food #5: Salmon [101265356_0.jpg?itok=1JP6fn68] Healthy Food #6: Walnuts [101252360_0.jpg?itok=X9eUUfaX] Healthy Food #7: Avocados [101135106_0.jpg?itok=E_b_p0gA] Healthy Food #8: Garlic Healthy Food #9: Spinach Healthy Food #10: Beans * ‹ Prev * next › * 1 of 11 | View All 1 * [101265278.jpg?itok=r-SGX33b] [default_image_361x361.png] Meike Bergmann/Jupiter Images Healthy Food #1: Lemons Why They're Healthy: — Just one lemon has more than 100 percent of your daily intake of vitamin C, which may help increase "good" HDL cholesterol levels and strengthen bones. — Citrus flavonoids found in lemons may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells and act as an anti-inflammatory. Quick Tip: Add a slice of lemon to your green tea. One study found that citrus increases your body's ability to absorb the antioxidants in the tea by about 80 percent. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101173077_4.jpg?itok=YFx8gGOR] [default_image_361x361.png] Thinkstock/Punchstock Healthy Food #2: Broccoli Why It's Healthy: — One medium stalk of broccoli contains more than 100 percent of your daily vitamin K requirement and almost 200 percent of your recommended daily dose of vitamin C — two essential bone-building nutrients. — The same serving also helps stave off numerous cancers. Quick Tip: Zap it! Preserve up to 90 percent of broccoli's vitamin C by microwaving. (Steaming or boiling holds on to just 66 percent of the nutrient.) Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265247_1.jpg?itok=tuHN5jT5] [default_image_361x361.png] Geoffrey Kidd/Alamy Healthy Food #3: Dark Chocolate Why It's Healthy: — Just one-fourth of an ounce daily can reduce blood pressure in otherwise healthy individuals. — Cocoa powder is rich in flavonoids, antioxidants shown to reduce "bad" LDL cholesterol and increase "good" HDL levels. Quick Tip: A dark chocolate bar contains about 53.5 milligrams of flavonoids; a milk chocolate bar has fewer than 14. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265248_0.jpg?itok=PQ8jpbI6] [default_image_361x361.png] D.Hurst/Alamy Healthy Food #4: Potatoes Why They're Healthy: — One red potato contains 66 micrograms of cell-building folate — about the same amount found in one cup of spinach or broccoli. — One sweet potato has almost eight times the amount of cancer-fighting and immune-boosting vitamin A you need daily. Quick Tip: Let your potato cool before eating. Research shows that doing so can help you burn close to 25 percent more fat after a meal, thanks to a fat-resistant starch. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101098916_0.jpg?itok=PoTjNj26] [default_image_361x361.png] FoodCollection.com Healthy Food #5: Salmon Why It's Healthy: — A great source of omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to a reduced risk of depression, heart disease, and cancer. — A 3-ounce serving contains almost 50 percent of your daily dose of niacin, which may protect against Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Quick Tip: Opt for wild over farm-raised, which contains 16 times as much toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) as wild salmon. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265356_0.jpg?itok=9U4jnI_S] [default_image_361x361.png] Healthy Food #6: Walnuts Why They're Healthy: — Contain the most omega-3 fatty acids, which may help reduce cholesterol, of all nuts. — Omega-3s have been shown to improve mood and fight cancer; they may protect against sun damage, too (but don't skip the SPF!). Quick Tip: Eat a few for dessert: The antioxidant melatonin, found in walnuts, helps to regulate sleep. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101252360_0.jpg?itok=5h-B1ehD] [default_image_361x361.png] Tim Hill/Stockfood Healthy Food #7: Avocados Why They're Healthy: — Rich in healthy, satisfying fats proven in one study to lower cholesterol by about 22 percent. — One has more than half the fiber and 40 percent of the folate you need daily, which may reduce your risk of heart disease. Quick Tip: Adding it to your salad can increase the absorption of key nutrients like beta-carotene by three to five times compared with salads without this superfood. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101135106_0.jpg?itok=Yq-YfOg6] [default_image_361x361.png] Healthy Food #8: Garlic Why It's Healthy: — Garlic is a powerful disease fighter that can inhibit the growth of bacteria, including E. coli. — Allicin, a compound found in garlic, works as a potent anti-inflammatory and has been shown to help lower cholesterol and blood-pressure levels. Quick Tip: Crushed fresh garlic releases the most allicin. Just don't overcook; garlic exposed to high heat for more than 10 minutes loses important nutrients. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * Adam Albright Healthy Food #9: Spinach Why It's Healthy: — Spinach contains lutein and zeaxanthin, two immune-boosting antioxidants important for eye health. — Recent research found that among cancer-fighting fruits and veggies, spinach is one of the most effective. Quick Tip: Spinach is a healthy — and flavorless — addition to any smoothie. You won't taste it, we promise! Try blending 1 cup spinach, 1 cup grated carrots, 1 banana, 1 cup apple juice, and ice. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * Peter Ardito Healthy Food #10: Beans Why They're Healthy: — Eating a serving of legumes (beans, peas, and lentils) four times a week can lower your risk of heart disease by 22 percent. — That same habit may also reduce your risk of breast cancer. Quick Tip: The darker the bean, the more antioxidants it contains. One study found that black bean hulls contain 40 times the amount of antioxidants found in white bean hulls. 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SUBSCRIBE #publisher Authority Nutrition » Feed Authority Nutrition » Comments Feed Authority Nutrition » 15 “Health Foods” That Are Really Junk Foods in Disguise Comments Feed [logo.jpg] * Home * Meal Plans * Foods * Archives * About * Contact 15 “Health Foods” That Are Really Junk Foods in Disguise By Kris Gunnars | 416,330 views Girl Drinking Low Fat Dairy Unhealthy foods are the main reason the world is fatter and sicker than ever before. Surprisingly, some of these foods are considered healthy by many people. Here are 15 “health foods” that are really junk foods in disguise. 1. Processed “Low-Fat” and “Fat-Free” Foods The “war” on saturated fat is the biggest mistake in the history of nutrition. It was based on weak evidence, which has now been completely debunked (1). When this started, processed food manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon and started removing the fat from foods. But there’s a huge problem… food tastes horrible when the fat has been removed. That’s why they added a whole bunch of sugar to compensate. Saturated fat is harmless, but added sugar is incredibly harmful when consumed in excess (2, 3). The words “low-fat” or “fat-free” on a packaging usually mean that it is a highly processed product that is loaded with sugar. 2. Most Commercial Salad Dressings Salad Dressing Vegetables are incredibly healthy. The problem is that they often don’t taste very good on their own. That’s why many people use dressings to add flavour to their salads, turning these bland meals into delicious treats. But many salad dressings are actually loaded with unhealthy ingredients like sugar, vegetable oils and trans fats, along with a bunch of artificial chemicals. Although vegetables are good for you, eating them with a dressing high in harmful ingredients will totally negate any health benefit you get from the salad. Make sure to check the ingredients list before you use a salad dressing… or make your own using healthy ingredients. 3. Fruit Juices… Which Are Basically Just Liquid Sugar Young Woman Drinking Orange Juice A lot of people believe fruit juices to be healthy. They must be… because they come from fruit, right? But a lot of the fruit juice you find in the supermarket isn’t really fruit juice. Sometimes there isn’t even any actual fruit in there, just chemicals that taste like fruit. What you’re drinking is basically just fruit-flavored sugar water. That being said, even if you’re drinking 100% quality fruit juice, it is still a bad idea. Fruit juice is like fruit, except with all the good stuff (like the fiber) taken out… the main thing left of the actual fruit is the sugar. If you didn’t know, fruit juice actually contains a similar amount of sugar as a sugar-sweetened beverage (4). [INS: :INS] 4. “Heart Healthy” Whole Wheat Most “whole wheat” products aren’t really made from whole wheat. The grains have been pulverized into very fine flour, making them raise blood sugar just as fast as their refined counterparts. Man With a Stack of Bread Slices In fact, whole wheat bread can have a similar glycemic index as white bread (5). But even true whole wheat may be a bad idea… because modern wheat is unhealthy compared to the wheat our grandparents ate. Around the year 1960, scientists tampered with the genes in wheat to increase the yield. Modern wheat is less nutritious and has some properties that make it much worse for people who are intolerant to gluten (6, 7, 8). There are also studies showing that modern wheat may cause inflammation and increased cholesterol levels, at least when compared to the older varieties (9, 10). Whereas wheat may have been a relatively healthy grain back in the day, the stuff most people are eating today is best avoided. 5. Cholesterol Lowering Phytosterols Broken Heart There are certain nutrients called phytosterols, which are basically like plant versions of cholesterol. Some studies have shown that they can lower blood cholesterol in humans (11). For this reason, they are often added to processed foods that are then marketed as “cholesterol lowering” and claimed to help prevent heart disease. However, studies have shown that despite lowering cholesterol levels, phytosterols have adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and may even increase the risk of heart disease and death (12, 13, 14). 6. Margarine Toasted Bread With Margarine Butter was demonized back in the day, due to the high saturated fat content. Various health experts started promoting margarine instead. Back in the day, margarine used to be high in trans fats. These days, it has less trans fats than before but is still loaded with refined vegetable oils. Margarine is not food… it is an assembly of chemicals and refined oils that have been made to look and taste like food. Not surprisingly, the Framingham Heart Study showed that people who replace butter with margarine are actually more likely to die from heart disease (15). If you want to improve your health, eat real butter (preferably grass-fed) but avoid processed margarine and other fake foods like the plague. Recommending trans fat laden margarine instead of natural butter may just be the worst nutrition advice in history. 7. Sports Drinks Man With Sports Drink, Smaller Sports drinks were designed with athletes in mind. These drinks contain electrolytes (salts) and sugar, which can be useful for athletes in many cases. However… most regular people don’t need any additional salts, and they certainly have no need for liquid sugar. Although often considered “less bad” than sugary soft drinks, there really is no fundamental difference except that the sugar content is sometimes slightly lower. It is important to stay hydrated, especially around workouts, but most people will be better off sticking to plain water. 8. Low-Carb Junk Foods Atkins Bar Low carb diets have been incredibly popular for many decades now. In the past 12 years, study after study has confirmed that these diets are an effective way to lose weight and improve health (16, 17). However… food manufacturers have caught up on the trend and brought various low-carb “friendly” processed foods to the market. This includes highly processed junk foods like the Atkins bars. If you take a look at the ingredients list, you see that there is NO real food in there, just chemicals and highly refined ingredients. These products can be consumed occasionally without compromising the metabolic adaptation that comes with low-carb eating. But they don’t really nourish your body… even though they’re technically low-carb, they’re still unhealthy. 9. Agave Nectar Syrup Given the known harmful effects of sugar, people have been looking for alternatives. One of the more popular “natural” sweeteners is Agave nectar, also called agave syrup. You will find this sweetener in all sorts of “health foods,” often with attractive claims on the packaging. The problem with Agave is that it is no better than sugar. In fact, it is much, much worse… One of the main problems with sugar is that it has excessive amounts of fructose, which can cause severe metabolic problems when consumed in excess (18). Whereas sugar is about 50% fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup about 55%, Agave contains even more… up to 70-90%. Therefore, gram for gram, Agave is even worse than regular sugar. See, “natural” doesn’t always equal healthy… and whether Agave should even be considered natural is debatable. [INS: :INS] 10. Vegan Junk Foods Brown Tofu Vegan diets are very popular these days, often due to ethical and environmental reasons. However… many people promote vegan diets for the purpose of improving health (which is questionable). There are many processed vegan foods on the market, often sold as convenient replacements for non-vegan foods. Vegan bacon is one example. But it’s important to keep in mind that these are usually highly processed, factory made products that are bad for just about anyone, including vegans. 11. Brown Rice Syrup Pastry Chef With Syrup Brown rice syrup (also known as rice malt syrup) is a sweetener that is mistakenly assumed to be healthy. This sweetener is made by exposing cooked rice to enzymes that break down the starch into simple sugars. Brown rice syrup contains no refined fructose, just glucose. The absence of refined fructose is good… but rice syrup has a glycemic index of 98, which means that the glucose in it will spike blood sugar extremely fast (19). Rice syrup is also highly refined and contains almost no essential nutrients. In other words, it is “empty” calories. Some concerns have been raised about arsenic contamination in this syrup, another reason to be extra careful with this sweetener (20). There are other better sweeteners out there… including low-calorie sweeteners like stevia, erythritol and xylitol, which actually have some health benefits. 12. Processed Organic Foods Granola Bars Unfortunately, the word “organic” has become just like any other marketing buzzword. Food manufacturers have found all sorts of ways to make the same junk, except with ingredients that happen to be organic. This includes ingredients like organic raw cane sugar, which is basically 100% identical to regular sugar. It’s still just glucose and fructose, with little to no nutrients. In many cases, the difference between an ingredient and its organic counterpart is next to none. Processed foods that happen to be labelled organic are not necessarily healthy. Always check the label to see what’s inside. 13. Vegetable Oils Bottles of Vegetable Oil We are often advised to eat seed- and vegetable oils. This includes soybean oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil and numerous others. This is based on the fact that these oils have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels, at least in the short term (21). However… it’s important to keep in mind that blood cholesterol is a risk factor, NOT a disease in itself. Even though vegetable oils can improve a risk factor, there is no guarantee that they will help prevent actual hard end points like heart attacks or death, which is what really counts. In fact, several controlled trials have shown that despite lowering cholesterol, these oils can increase the risk of death… from both heart disease and cancer (22, 23, 24). So eat healthy, natural fats like butter, coconut oil and olive oil, but avoid processed vegetable oils as if your life depended on it (it does). 14. Gluten-Free Junk Foods Woman Wondering Whether to Eat Muffin According to a 2013 survey, about a third of people in the U.S. are actively trying to avoid gluten. A lot of experts think this is unnecessary… but the truth is that gluten, especially from modern wheat, can be problematic for a lot of people (25). Not surprisingly, the food manufacturers have brought all sorts of gluten-free foods to the market. The problem with these foods, is that they are usually just as bad as their gluten-containing counterparts, if not worse. These are highly processed foods that are very low in nutrients and often made with refined starches that lead to very rapid spikes in blood sugar. So… choose foods that are naturally gluten free, like plants and animals, NOT gluten free processed foods. Gluten-free junk food is still junk food. [INS: :INS] 15. Most Processed Breakfast Cereals The way some breakfast cereals are marketed is a disgrace. Many of them, including those that are marketed towards children, have all sorts of health claims plastered on the box. This includes misleading things like “whole grain” or “low fat.” But… when you actually look at the ingredients list, you see that it’s almost nothing but refined grains, sugar and artificial chemicals. The truth is, if the packaging of a food says that it is healthy, then it probably isn’t. The truly healthy foods are those that don’t need any health claims… whole, single ingredient foods. Real food doesn’t even need an ingredients list, because real food IS the ingredient. Related Articles * Overweight Man Pouring Ketchup on a Hamburger 11 Graphs That Show Everything That is Wrong With The Modern Diet * Young Woman Thinking About a Muffin Why is Fructose Bad For You? 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Home › 2. Issues › 3. Healthy Food in Health Care Healthy Food in Health Care The Healthy Food in Health Care program harnesses the purchasing power and expertise of the health care sector to advance the development of a sustainable food system. Through advocacy, and education, we motivate facilities to implement programs that explicitly connect all aspects of the food system with health. We catalyze sustainable procurement efforts, create clinician advocates, and inspire health care institutions to become leaders in shaping a food system that supports prevention-based health care. Who We Are Healthy Food in Health Care (HFHC) is a national initiative of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), developed in conjunction with its member organizations. We work with hospitals across the country to help improve the sustainability of their food services. Founded in 2005, the program provides education, tools, resources, and support to health care facilities, making the connection between the health of patients, staff and community and the food they serve. The HFHC program is led by a team of allies from HCWH member organizations around the country, as well as independent contractors that provide issue-driven expertise. Find a HFHC organizer in your region. The HFHC program also helps to coordinate the Healthier Food Challenge of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), a national sustainability initiative for the healthcare sector. Several of our programs, such as the Balanced Menus, Local & Sustainable Purchasing and Healthy Beverages are embedded in HHI. What We Do The program aims to leverage the significant purchasing power and health expert status of hospitals to promote a healthier food system. By purchasing foods that are produced, processed and transported in ways that are protective of public and environmental health, hospitals can make a profound difference in the food system and in their own food environments. Getting Started with a Menu of Options Many health care institutions have begun to adopt practices and policies to support a healthy food system — one that is environmentally sustainable, improves nutritional quality and supports human dignity and justice. Following these case studies, your facility can improve the quality of food choices by choosing among the recommendations offered in our Menu of Options (pdf). 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Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction centre in the brains of a small group of men and women. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, whole wheat pasta.” End Quote Prof Susan B Roberts Tufts University The results showed increased cravings for healthy lower-calorie foods. Prof Susan B Roberts, senior study author and behavioural nutrition scientist at the Boston university, said: "We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, wholewheat pasta. "This conditioning happens over time in response to eating - repeatedly - what is out there in the toxic food environment." Scientists know that once people are addicted to unhealthy foods, it is usually very hard to change their eating habits and get them to lose weight. But Prof Roberts' research, published in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes, suggests the brain can learn to like healthy foods. They studied the part of the brain linked to reward and addiction in 13 overweight and obese men and women, eight of whom were taking part in a specially designed weight-loss programme. MRI scan of the brain Scans of the brain's reward centre showed that food preferences had changed This focused on changing food preferences by prescribing a diet high in fibre and protein, and low in carbohydrates, but which did not allow participants to become hungry because this is when food cravings take over and unhealthy food becomes attractive. The other five adults were not part of the weight-loss programme. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote There is much more research to be done here, involving many more participants and long-term follow-up.” End Quote Prof Susan Roberts When their brains were scanned using MRI at the start and end of a six-month period, those following the programme showed changes in the brain's reward centre. When participants were shown pictures of different types of food, it was the healthy, low-calorie foods which produced an increased reaction. The study said this indicated an increased reward and enjoyment of healthier food. The brain's reward centre also showed decreased sensitivity to the unhealthy, higher-calorie foods. The Boston researchers say that gastric bypass surgery, while solving the problem of weight loss, can take away food enjoyment rather than make healthier foods more appealing. "There is much more research to be done here, involving many more participants, long-term follow-up and investigating more areas of the brain," Prof Roberts said. 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The results are surprising. Many of the chains that have built their entire marketing campaigns around their better-for-you food weren’t customer picks. I’m thinking in particular of the “eat fresh” mantra at Subway Subway, one chain consumers didn’t single out as healthiest. Where do customers say they’re eating healthy? Here’s are consumers’ picks: The 9 Fastest-Growing Fast-Food Restaurant Chains 1. Jamba Jamba Juice — There are plenty of smoothie chains out there, but Jamba won customers’ vote with its “better for you” positioning and line of nutritious smoothies. 2. Jason’s Deli — This chain is one of the top per-unit revenue generators in fast food, driven by its menu of gluten-free, vegetarian, and organic sandwiches and soups. 3. McAlister’s Deli — Gluten-free and the option to get half-sandwiches are among the options that won consumers over. 4. Cheesecake Factory — Who’d a thunk this one? With its enormous cheesecake slices, this chain made its name on pig-out desserts, but since 2011 has been plugging its Skinnylicious menu of smaller-portioned salads, wraps, and rolls. 5. Bonefish Grill — Grilled fish always sounds low-cal, doesn’t it? 6. Bahama Breeze Island Grill — Apparently some customers are staying away from those calorie-rich tropical drinks and sticking to the seafood here. But are they really the best? Those are the chains customers chose as healthiest — but not necessarily the eateries that offer the healthiest menus overall. Health magazine had a panel of nutrition experts analyze the menus of the top 100 chains, and their top 10 list is almost completely different. Of the consumer picks, only Jason’s Deli made their cut. Their rankings: 1. Panera Bread topped the list with a broad menu of healthy soups and sandwiches. 2. Jason’s Deli is praised for whole-grain wraps and organic fillings. 3. Au Bon Pain ranked high for its low-cal soups. 4. Noodles & Co., which recently went public, won points for whole-grain pastas and sauteeing in healthy soybean oil. 5. Corner Bakery Cafe has low-cal roasted chicken and omelets. 6. Chipotle’s commitment to organics and local sourcing earned it kudos. 7. Atlanta Bread won points for whole-grain breads and selling lower-calorie muffin tops instead of calorie-bomb, giant muffins. 8. McDonald's McDonald's may be known as the home of fatty fries, but it’s also got low-fat yogurt parfaits and some tasty salads. 9. Einstein Bros. Bagels got kudos for low-fat spreads and high-fiber bagels. 10. Taco Del Mar bakes its taco shells and fish rather than frying, among other fat-cutting moves. I’m fascinated that once again, Subway does not turn up on this list. Regional delis Jason’s and McAlister’s appear to be gaining on Subway in low-fat reputation. The only segment where consumers named Subway their healthy-eating pick is “matures,” diners born before 1945. An older customer base doesn’t bode well for future trends at Subway. Comparing Health‘s list with the customer picks, it appears many bakeries suffer from a perception-versus-reality problem, where customers think of the deli-sandwich sector as healthier — though judging from the mile-high stacks of lunch meat some delis put on their sandwiches, I’m not sure that’s accurate. Viewed by many as a place to pig out on carbs, bakery chains are striving to be healthier and offering low-call food — but customers don’t “get” it yet. McDonald’s, of course, continues to struggle mightily against public perception of it as a calorie-rich burger brand. The bottom line here: the days when all restaurant food was a diet disaster are over. There are plenty of healthy restaurant meals diners could choose. Now, all we have to do is skip that giant Panera brownie or enormous slice of mud pie cheesecake at Cheesecake Factory, and we could make some headway in cutting calories. Based on the state of America’s waistlines, and how many healthy choices we now have, we can’t blame the chains — it’s our own lack of self-control. 1 comments, 0 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Print Report Corrections Reprints & Permissions Million-Dollar Burger -- The Most Lucrative Fast-Food Restaurants Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor What You'll Eat Next: Tasty Food Trends For 2014 Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor 4 Threats That Could Spell The End Of Cheap Fast Food Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor 10 Ways Technology Will Rock Your Dining Experience In 2014 Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor Post Your Comment Cancel reply Post Your Reply Please log in or sign up to comment. 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Specifically, muesli often provides as many as 500 calories per serving, has a high fat content, and contains an unacceptable amount of added sugar. You’d be better off eating fresh fruit or even a plain doughnut. If you hate the idea of giving up muesli, but are committed to eating healthily, the best thing that you can do is make your own muesli. To make muesli, you need buy oats, sunflower seeds, a small amount of dried fruit, and some macadamia nuts (though you should be conservative when adding the fruit and nuts in order to keep the sugar and fat content of your muesli under control). With a serving of fat free milk, this homemade muesli will give you the fuel you need to start your day without causing your blood sugar levels to skyrocket. 1 of 22 Also popular * fustian24 Fat and proteins are great for dieters. Sugars and grains aren’t. When will you people get the message? + deb_gib Too much protein is very _unhealthy_ for anyone ( animal protein is especially hard on one’s kidneys ). The “good” fats are what one can benefit from , stay completely away from the LDL fats. Sugar in any form is very bad for humans in anything more than a small amount as it raises the blood sugar sharply and creates a steep “crash” which then requires the person to have more sugar to get out of the crash ,’wash, rinse,repeat’. Limited serving sizes and servings of fruit are best to keep blood sugar within the healthy boundaries .Fruit does not fill up and sustain a full feeling in one’s stomach which leads to snacking and overeating. Carb counting is also necessary to keep control of one’s weight and general health. The carb to fiber content ratio in food is important. (see:carb formula). Red Dwarf Short Wheat (White flour !) is the evil demon of our society. All breads and cereals contain RDSWheat (even canned soup contains white flour for thickening,etc.), it turns to poison in the human body. Grains are very _good_ for anyone, in a variety of ways. You really need to educate yourself about grains, your ignorance is blinding. Quinoa, millet, teff, spelt,brown rice etc. are all very healthy and high in fiber and nutrition. o fustian24 I will grant you that there are grains that are better and worse for you, but having grain be a major portion of your diet is still probably a bad idea. And Quinoa isn’t even a true grain. o pbrower2a We really should eat less mammal meat. We should not eat meals perfectly suited to the family dog, let alone the cat. We are apes — not dogs. o http://www.theenglishrag.com/ Tony Butler However, the artificial sweeteners Aspartame, and the GM corn syrup concoctions cause a craving carbohydrates, and create fat to be retained by the body. + Looli When it becomes true. + John Wheeler Not only great for dieters, also better choices for diabetics. Carbohydrates cause blood glucose levels to spike. That goes for fast carb and so-called slow carbs. They’re all carbohydrates, in other words, sugar. + Proud Skeptic True Dat. I always feel best and am at my best weight when I’m on Atkins. + Lil Because we know that places where people eat lots of fresh fruit (which contains sugar) are fat as holy f***. And those Japanese and Koreans who eat a lot of white rice? All that rice, they’re fatasses. Oh wait, they’re some of the most slender people on planet earth in 1st world countries. Not saying fat and protein aren’t GREAT, but everything in moderation, except water and green veggies (which you can pretty much eat an unlimited amount of without harm, provided you listen to your body and don’t try to drown yourself or stuff yourself stupid) + Briton I was just wondering the same thing. If I hear “be careful of saturated fat because it raises your cholesterol” on more god damn time… + Robyn Complex carbs are the body’s first and main source of immediate energy. Complex carbs are processed into glycogen which is stored in the muscles and liver. Glycogen does not convert to fat. The fat you eat is the fat that directly inhabits your cells and blocks insulin as well as non-fat soluble nutrient absorption. Excess protein is proven over and over AND over again to be a direct cause of breast, colorectal, and kidney cancer. When will you protein and fat promoters start taking physiology classes and learn how the human body functions? The high-fat, high-protein fad is helping to strengthen the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the US and Europe. The world’s populations that depend on rice, potatoes, legumes and other grains are proven to be the world’s healthiest populations. o Trillstar Is there a healthy population that subsists on sugar? + JaiGuru I disagree with the grains bit. Whole grains, including healthy doses of flax seed have routinely mad ea huge difference in my weight loss efforts. I more or less always experience better results in switching to whole grains than by removing that form of carb entirely. Remember folks: You need servings of ALL the macro nutrients. Attempting to cut one out is bad at best, and potentially dangerous. Anyone telling you to cut one out does not know what they’re talking about. Carbohydrates/fats/proteins NEVER = bad. + Randy Two ways: 1:Advertisers and big companies (with agendas to sell you unhealthy, cheap foods for larger profits) will be legislated against and forced to comply with new laws disallowing any form of “creative advertising” (read: Lying). 2: People will try it for themselves and see that as long as Intake < Output, they will lose weight. I personally have lost 21kg on a high-fat, no carb/sugar diet. Unfortunately, what we'll see instead of a variety of supposedly reputable scientists (who are getting paid to support whichever theory at the time) telling us entirely different things, and we'll see more and more fad diets. + Michele I think the important thing to remember is “healthy fats” in moderation. By healthy fats I mean things like an avocado, walnuts, and almonds, etc and not cookies and cupcakes. So many people want to believe it’s still okay to slather things in butter and cheese. Then they wonder why they are over weight and have health issues. I don’t see the reason in arguing about food here. I ask myself when I purchase something… would my grandmother recognize this as food? People born in the 1920’s (aka grandparents and now great grandparents if they took care of themselves) ate a lot more vegetables than what most people do today. They ate a LOT less sugar. Their food didn’t have any of the chemicals (dyes, pesticides, and preservatives) that it has today. Nothing came out of a box pretty much. My grandmother had a sweet tooth but otherwise ate the same food, never out of a box ever day and lived to 88. She only died because she was a smoker and had complications. Her mother died at 92. They ate balanced meals with proteins, healthy fats and minimal carbohydrates. Knowing these things is not the challenge… resisting the yummy temptations is! + Fred Johnson Animal protein is bad for everyone. A whole food plant based diet is the only healthy way to go. * Adam Perpetuating the old lie that saturated fat leads to elevated cholesterol. When will they get it right. Sat at doesn’t increase cholesterol leading to diabetes, diabetes causes damage to blood vessels and the cholesterol level rises to repair the damage. If you want to lose weight eat mostly fresh or lightly steamed fruits and vegetables with some protein. it doesn’t even have to be lean or fat free although I would skip the deep frier. + Kaitensatsuma Actually, if you want to lose weight, Move Your Ass. + sleat Very true. The agenda is to keep us addicted to corn syrup and white flour. Wouldn’t mind fried chicken if it was light on the breading (fried salty chicken-skin instead)…and fried in coconut oil! But could just as easily go an eggs benedict with smoked salmon, spinach, and hollandaise! Yum! * Rachel Well the good news is that I haven’t eaten anything on this list in ten years or more. I was considering trying the cereal but if I have to make it myself then why bother? * adfljkafklj Sushi’s unhealthy? Japan still tops in life expectancy at an average of 83 years old. + matt227 Just tuna. I wouldn’t eat it more than twice a week. In time I even think its mercury content will be labelled by law. o newsmom4968 and with the leakage of radioactive stuff from fukushima, i suspect we should be on high alert for fish caught in japanese waters.. + Marco Contrary to popular belief, sushi and sashimi do not form the mainstay of the average Japanese person’s diet. Fish (together with rice) is the mainstay, but it is not always raw and comprises of a whole host of species other than tuna. + jdege Japan is healthy because they eat Natto, which is rich in K2. The French are healthy beacause they eat full-fat cheeses from grass-fed cows, which are rich in K2. Americans are not healthy, because when we eat animal fat, it’s from grain-fed animals, so we’re all K2 deficient, and so we get calcium deposiiting in our arteries instead of our bones. o san san A very nicely precised answer! * Mercura Sunglasses Zero fat Fage Greek yogurt with Spectrum Ground flaxseed with berries and plain apple sauce is my favorite high protein right fat delicious mix! * Tal Heathful/Unheathful. If they were healthy, they would be alive. * doctorzombe I would rather give up a year of my life than do without Ahi. * JCW43 The quickest, easiest, healthiest, and tastiest salad dressing ever is simply a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil to lightly coat your greens and veges, then a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and toss lightly. Try it. You will love it. + deb_gib Don’t be such a know-it -all, just because you “love ” it doesn’t mean everyone will like it or tolerate it well. By the way, you didn’t ‘invent’ oil & lemon on salad. * Gary Fischman The part about energy bars is bunk. I’ve never seen one with 500 calories. Most are under 300. Next time do a little research! The rest of what you say is valid. * newsmom4968 and too little exercise! * IvonaPoyntz Making own muesli not a bad idea. * Scott So to sum it up – everything you eat in unhealthy * gary kaposta Skim milk is more fattening than fully fatted milk. Glycemic index skim…32….whole…..27!!! Eat healthy fat with every meal,,,30% of fat intake should be saturated(Nothing fried/hydrogenated), Fat slows the time(Transient time)it takes for carbohydrates(…the body converts all carbohydrates…fruits, vegetables and starches into sugar) to convert into glucose thus limiting the production of the fat storing hormone insulin. + mike932 or just eat fiber with skim milk * Grey Define for me the word “pedant” + alfred ferguson A pedant is one who “pays too much attention” (Webster’s Collegiate) to “book learning”. However, I think that you can’t learn “too much” from “books”–beats hell out of the potential whips and scorns and, occasionally, fatalities of literal experience–which, of course, is essential and instructive as well as complementary. * Joe Smith Make sure you point which brands to get and where yo can get these brands. Recipes would be nice sometimes instead of branding everything. * LindsyLoo Saturated fat has now found to be ok. In fact research shows it can prevent heart disease. We need to eat fats (not hydrogenated or vegetable oils) and cut out carbs and garins. keep up with the health research by medical doctors and you will find this is true. * Mia Rabovsky the whole “make your own at home” message is the only good part about this article. otherwise, i think it tries to scare people away from too many foods. i was appalled that they think mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna is a serious concern. i mean ya it does happen, but you have to be eating tuna or swordfish or mackrel or yellowtails at least 7 days per week or more for that to happen to you. seriously if more people ate fish – we would all be much healthier! * Keepin_it_simple If you have a regular exercise routine you can ignore this article. Carb counting is not the answer. Push up counting on the other hand…. Honestly, starting an exercise routine is all you need. You will learn/want to be more healthy with your food choices as you progress. The body needs to sweat or it’ll become toxic. It’s as simple as that. It’s like changing the oil in a car, regularly. + Rich It’s so true, so many of these “health” articles are focused almost entirely on calories, and that’s not all there is to it. Fact is, you can get away with a lot of this stuff if you have a regular exercise routine. Also, I really don’t like that “energy bars” on here. Why? Because I’m pretty sure I never thought of them as being “healthy” food, but just food.. to give you energy.. they’re good for keeping up your energy if you’re, say, going for a ridiculously long walk or something, for which you need the calories. But have they ever really been considered as a way to lose weight? + just me sweating is only a way of cooling down ,the liver kidneys and spleen will help stop your body from becoming toxic (septicemia) its not necessary to sweat when exercising but it is necessary to get “puffed” breathing deeply getting the heart pumping for at least 30 mins 2/3 times a week * SoitDroitFait They actually did a study a while back where they put three groups on 1500 calorie diets made up of 90% fats, 90% proteins, and 90% carbohydrates. In a week, the first group lost a couple pounds, the second group lost a little less than the first, and the third group actually gained weight. So, yes, eating carbs will make you put on fat, even with a controlled calorie diet. + Guest holy crap. THIS is where the “confusions” come in…. NO BODY is identical to the guy next to them. so, OF COURSE….. in that study “some” people will lose weight and “some” will gain. no one can eat the exact same diet as another person and expect identical results. that’s no confusion what so ever. But the same is true of the ice-cream diet. the pure psyllium-husk diet. or the pure-butter diet. if you level the playing field by caloric content alone. that only makes perfect sense. You CAN…. “lose weight” eating ice cream….. (OR by eating absolutely nothing) that would work , also……. :-/ * dan its not correct to label high calorie foods as dangerous or unhealthy…a calorie surplus is what makes you gain fat. Everything has calories and also everyone knows eating fat doesent necessarily make you fat. Fat has 9 cals per gram and carbs and protein have 4 per gram, so it could make you gain fat more easily but at the end of the day like i said its down to a calorie balance. * Dorian A lot of what they describe is only correct with an “if” attached, so mutli grain products do not have to be highly processed for instance, if they are then of course they are unhealthy. Fats do make you fat. They are calories and they make you fat. The MYTH they do not (and it is a myth, definitely and unequivocally) is because of the Atkins diet. + mookow I am so sick of people saying “a calorie is a calorie” and that there is no difference in weight gain or loss from the type of calorie consumed. Gasoline contains 11 calories per gram. If I drink gasoline, I’m going to gain more weight then if I were to eat the equivalent weight of carbs or fat? A car engine works because of the calories (energy) stored in the gasoline, which are released as heat to power the engine. You know what has a higher energy density than gasoline? Magnesium metal. Instead of putting higher octane fuel in the car, go throw some magnesium shavings into your gas tank. I’m sure you will get more miles to the gallon that way! To be oblivious to the fact that the body reacts differently to different types of foods you put in is equivalent to saying taking 100 milligrams of morphine is going to do nothing but give you one calorie of energy. + sleat If you eat 100 calories worth of coconut oil, or 100 calories of pasta, I’ll guarantee that you won’t want as much more food after the coconut oil, as you do after eating the pasta. It’s an empirical, biological fact! * just me! the best ,easiest, most healthiest ,cheapest way of losing weight ,which EVERYONE can do ,including diabetics…is just eat …LESS!! that’s all there is to it , there is no magic formula and no quick fix, all that is needed is “willpower” ..and that’s free,,,there is one instance where fat is an absolute necessity ,as part of one’s diet ,Vitamin D require’s this to help it’s absorption in to our system , this seriously applies to M.S sufferer’s where their need for Vitamin D , is approximately 3/4 times more then normal circumstances * Byron C Mayes The problem here is that the article keeps equating “unhealthy” with “inappropriate for weight loss.” They aren’t the same thing. Even the best “energy bars” aren’t designed for weight loss. They’re designed to provide an energy boost — usually high caloric — to someone who needs it for working out, sports, heavy lifting, or other calorie-burning activity. You’re certainly not going to lose weight by eating an energy bar — or pretty much anything else — and then sitting on your butt for hours. Besides, not everyone wants to lose weight. Some want to gain and build muscle, some want to maintain, and some just want to remain “in good health.” None of that necessarily means losing weight. + Stevie Mac If the article is right that there is shitloads of sugar in energy bars, they’ve got a good case its unhealthy. * rogern1967 Oh no…..we are all going to die!!!!! * melbeetoast Fat isn’t bad for you. Lots of things that are high in fat are healthy: avocados, nuts, coconuts, etc. Fat in food making you fat is a myth. Just don’t eat processed junk and get most of your sugars from fresh fruits. Also exercise. It’s not rocket science. * FMaz The comments on energy bar miss the point of what Energy bar are for: Energy bar are a supplement in … Energy (aka. Calories). You’re not suppose to take them when you want to loose weight, but when you have trouble eating enought for the energy you’re spending… so it avoid loosing weight, muscle mass, or feeling dizzy. I’ve yet to see fat maraton runners. Their weight is not a problem for them because they spend huge amount of calories (aka Energy). An energy bar that have few calories is useless. I want my energy bar to be packed with sugar (fast energy) and calories for “long term”. I don’t want to fill my stomac with too much food, so I don’t feel sick while running, and I also want potasium, to help avoiding cramps. If I could take something the size of a Chewing gum that would give me 2000 calories and have a good share of Carbohydrate (sugar), it would be the perfect Energy supplement. A cofee and an energy bar are 2 very differents things. “Energy drink” are often more like cofee, and have a completely different purpose. An energy drink don’t keep you awake with “Energy”, neither does a cofee. * Ranlyn You are totally right! + ThirdEyeOpen Finally people have opened their eyes! Grains and mass sugar is exactly what should be limited in our diets. Fats and proteins are the way forward. Obese people tend to rarely have fresh meat or the correct fats, and they should diet properly not with all this low fat&wholegrain stuff. o Rebecca White Well I know that I gain weight when I have too much fat, and having inflammatory problems, if I eat too much protein it makes everything ache and makes my allergies bad. Also I have diabetes and too much protein is not good for diabetics because digesting proteins is hard on the kidneys and diabetics have to watch out for their kidneys. The answer as to why Atkins works for some people (for awhile, I’ve never known anybody who it worked for in the long run because people don’t stay on it and it makes them feel like sh*t)) is that it makes you sick. You are not getting proper nutrition. You are not getting your vitamins and minerals and anti-oxidents. Sick people lose weight. Now when I don’t eat very much fat and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and enough healthy carbohydrates to curb the hunger (potatoes, whole grains, pasta, even white pasta) I lose weight. I don’t eat meat or dairy and I feel absolute wonderful. That’s enough proof for me. The whole high protein thing is nonsense. Nobody but anorexics ever have a protein deficiency. You can lose weight and be sick and feel terrible, or you can lose weight and be healthy and feel good. I prefer the latter, thanks. # Sylvie sounds like you need to heal your gut in the first place that actually is the cause for all your health issues . what caused that was excess sugar and carbs (so you developed diabetes) and processed/junk food. you most likely have systemic yeast (so much toxins from dying off yeast that you developed allergies from overloaded kidneys/liver with dead yeast toxins) and most likely a bunch of other digestive symptoms you’ve had for years. sounds like you have ‘leaky gut’ -perforated digestive tract-and symptoms caused by the immune system reacting to undigested food that gets in the blood stream thru your perforated digestive tract. because of all the toxins you most likely have toxic kidney/liver overload and cant process protein for that reason. You have to change your diet and heal your gut first. For sure you are not going to do that by eating refined carbs/sugar that caused your issues in the first place. Lots of learning for you :) Good luck. @ brimstonesacrifice . Are you Rebecca’s doctor? Are you her nutritionist? You assume to know what type of diabetes she has. Assuming and giving advice is DANGEROUS. @ Sylvie i’m not diagnosing ANYTHING. You don’t understand what im saying at all. Understanding the mechanism of getting sick is key and that’s what i did. Healing of gut -that applies to most people that are ill with anything, and for sure to those with any ‘autoimmune’ issues. Changing your food to get healthy is always a step #1. So why don’t you re-read what i wrote and try to understand it :) @ LCDR USN Ret Some folks never let the facts get in the way of a good harangue! Makes them feel special. @ Kimberly Lira How do you heal your gut? @ Sylvie with the right food Kimberly. no other way. Gluten is a huge culprit as it permeates gut and undigested food get into the blood stream causing huge issues. This is really simplifying it- but it all is actually very simple: key changes: no sugar, no flours, nothing from cans, nothing processed. Eat only natural food -as nature made it- buy only from perimeter of a grocery store and go cook it all yourself. Eat meats, fats, butter, sour cream, eggs, some veggies, nuts. Little fruit. Use sea salt, we need good salt. Drink water(only when thirsty), tea, coffee is fine. Its all very simple. After 2-3 weeks you will not believe the difference. It’s ALL about the food. cheers @ http://www.stephenjones.biz/ Stephen Jones I wouldn’t necessarily dis the fruit, because the purple and blues and reds are SO very nutritious, but the amount of fructose is the main concern. For many reasons we all need to keep our blood sugar as low as possible before and after we eat, and also because we don’t want to feed the candida and other yeasts in our gut. The health benefits of fruit is so great that it is in my opinion, worth checking into products like Juice Plus or other similar organic fruit extracts that give you all the benefit, but without the fructose. ~ Peace! @ Sylvie you right. thats why i said ‘little fruit’. i think each person needs to judge how they FEEL after eating fruit. e.i. – i cant tolerate higher sugar fruit like apples, grapes and for sure i cant eat fruit AFTER meals. My stomach feels awful – bloated and gassy. I think we need to get back in touch how the food makes us feel as well. The best way to tell- A GOOD DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE FELT OR HEARD. :)) @ Arcanek Watch out for sea salt. What gets sold as sea salt is often sodium chloride from seawater, which is just plain table salt. What you want is whole, unrefined salt. @ Sylvie of course. im totally aware of that :) @ Biophys No it is not, and no it does not. Gluten is a name given to a part some grains foods which contains a protein called gliadin. Some people are allergic to gliadin, causing a disease called variously “Gluten Enteropathy” and “Coeliac Disease” (Celiac in USA). If you are not allergic to gliadin, then eating gluten which contains gliadin is not dangerous. @ traderjim7 Kimberly, You heal your gut with avocado, probably the most nutritious food you can eat. Another helpful food for that is organic yogurt, but be sure to avoid the kind with sugar in it. Remember to eat a good amount of roughage with fruits and vegetables, so that your food will go through you properly without any issues. @ Nabeel Saeed Hassan Sylvie, since you can’t eat fruits without feeling bloated or gassy, maybe its Your gut you need to heal. Carbs didn’t ruin your gut and give you yeast; handsanitizers and antibiotics and UV filters did. We ARE our microbiome, and our modern lifestyles complete ignore this fact. If starches caused diabetes, ALL of south east Asia would be diabetic and dead. (it isn’t). Why? because our genes are a lot smarter than you realize. 5000 years is plenty of time for genes to adapt to changes in nutrition. Which is why its no accident that grains became a staple of human everywhere, and in fact gave the grain eaters a huge advantage over those who still ate tubers for starch. Humans and grains co-evolved symbiotically. Besides you have to be very hypocritical, or very stupid to promote dairy consumption but prohibit grains. What stone-age man drank cow’s milk? No, our bodies are NOT the same as the stone age, nor is anything that we even think of as food. Your whole sticks and stones diet is therefore based on a lie. @ Trillstar Starches aren’t the main culprit of diabetes. The problem is starches combined with added sugars. Yeast survives on sugar. When you eat sugar (and thereby, carbs in general), you are feeding the Candida. 5000 years is a drop in the bucket when it comes to adaptability. This is the reason people are continuing to develop diabetes, because we haven’t evolved to be able to process all of these agricultural grains, which didn’t show up on earth until roughly 7500 years ago. Before that, humans survived on meat and foraging. That means nuts, berries, some vegetables, some fruit. No chips. No pasta. No wheat. No bread. # Neal All false. You may feel bad for the first week or two on low-carb, but that is withdrawal. It’s just like the heroin addict who tries to quit. They feel real crappy while their body is reeling from the heroin deficiency, and with your logic, they might say, “Well heroin must be good for me.” Our whole society is addicted, strung out, on carbs and sugar. You may have a particular sensitivity to protein, but you are a rare case. More likely, you are sensitive to a certain ingredient in the meats you have tried. ( And if you are vegan or have tried to get protein from exclusively non-animal sources, THAT’s your problem). Our ancestors before agriculture ate mostly meat proteins and fats, and what little carbs they got came from berries and nuts. We are descended from that stock, and our physiology is almost identical to theirs. There are still whole societies today who live on a low-carb diet, such as in the jungles of South America and above the Arctic Circle. And guess what? Diabetes is almost unheard-of in those societies. The diet humans ate for thousands of years pre-agriculture is not the problem. I cannot believe you seriously think that potatoes and pasta are good for diabetics. I have been almost completely carb-free for three months, and I feel great. All my cholesterol and other blood work is great. Now if I were to eat a bowl of pasta right now, then I would feel like crap, and also start back craving the carbs that made me that way. Stop believing the government and Big Agri. @ AUricle Neal, RW’s “problem” is that she’s diabetic and has probably already damaged her kidneys to a degree. Any normal person who follows the whole Atkins plan through ALL 4 stages will emerge a healthier, fitter, slimmer person. As far as being tough on the kidneys, the ‘induction’ phase of Atkins will put you into ketosis (not acidosis) which could give you kidney pain, BUT if you’re drinking the amount of water he recommended, you will eliminate the extra ketones without causing problems. All know is, when I did it, my carb cravings disappeared totally by the 5th-6th day, and once you get past that, induction can go on indefinitely until you’re close to the desired weitght. It literally fell off chunks at a time for me! @ Sylvie i had exactly same experience ..and ive been on ‘atkin’s version’ for over 12 years now. i call it caveman diet though. i have tonnes of energy, no cravings, i sleep like a corpse for 5-6 hrs, perfect digestion, im skinny and have great skin. :))) it’s unreal how different i feel from what i used to be all my life before that- lethargic, no energy to do anything, exhausted after a normal work day, could sleep until noon every day and still feel not rested, 3 pm crashes, weight gain, etc ect. what amazes me is that people are sick and fat and still defend the bad food they eat. the lack of common sense is shocking. cheers! @ Smart_Tech_Spinner What people did millions of years ago… must be good for us today, right? (Like those 30 year life-expectancies) # scott schor I’m diabetic and had a heart attack. My nutritionist from cardiac rehab encouraged me to up my proteins and healthy fats, and to discontinue all processed foods. It’s been three years, I lost 90 pounds and am considered a rockstar by my cardiologist’s office. As I upped my protein intake (generally 30% of my daily intake, I drink more water to assist my kidneys. # disqus_wreTySFzQM I quit eating fruit and wheat products except one cheat day a week October 18. I weighed 277 that day. Yesterday jan 27 I weighed myself I was 237.8 (digital scale. I would suggest if you have problems with protein drink a lot of water. Also get rid of dairy if you are using any for protein. farmers put cattle on skim milk to fatten them up # WeAreNotAmused Atkins was mainly discredited because it had too many bad fats in it. As for inflammation, mine is caused by grains, gluten, soy and dairy, along with sweeteners, carageenan, too many simple carbs eaten out of proportion, the wrong oils, the wrong protein (commercially produced proteins are harmful, but grass-fed, organic, free-range, eaten in proportion are part of a healthy, balanced diet (find a good anti-inflammation plan, which has helped me cut inflammation/swelling significantly, along with some modified Paleo). I’ve already normalized all my glucose numbers that way. I scarcely ever consume any grains, nor white potatoes. Fruit servings need to be done proportionately, as well. There is no one-size fits all eating plan. # OstaraBaby Rebecca, is it all proteins you have trouble with or just animal proteins? Animal proteins are highly acidic and could be causing your inflammation. You might try some beans (the hard kind you have to cook, not already canned). The little red beans I usually eat have only 60 cal per serving and 7 g of protein plus they give me fiber. Kidney beans are a higher protein bean too. Quinoa is also a good vegetable protein source, and it picks up the flavor of foods it is cooked with. So when we make meatloaf, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, etc at home, we use a 93% or better ground beef and mix 1 part beef to 2 parts quinoa. That cuts our consumption of animal protein to a third (a little over ONE ounce per 4 oz serving of the dish) and still almost 20 grams of protein. If you eat NO meat at all, quinoa is still very versatile – you can use it anywhere you would have used rice, as a side dish or with veggies mixed in. Personally, I try to eat like my grandparents, before processed foods became so prevalent. I don’t avoid any food component – I include carbs, fats and proteins – and I feel it is a mistake to exclude any of them. Our ancestors evolved eating them all, so our metabolism is geared to being supplied with them all. Just stay away from anything processed (ie, my carbs are complex). # Trillstar I’m diabetic as well and I have to disagree with you. Of course, if you indulge in fatty food, you will gain weight. This is because fat is more calorie dense than protein or carbohydrates. I also engage in this annoying balancing act when it comes to diet. One thing I can tell you for certain is that carbs. ALL CARBS are the enemy of the modern diet. All carbs eventually turn into sugar. Diabetics have trouble processing sugar. Simple enough. Stop eating sugar=stop eating carbs. That doesn’t mean you supplement your diet with fatty red meats. It means avoid potatoes, whole grains, and especially white pasta. Your chances of dying from a blood-sugar induced heart infarction is far greater than your dying from Kidney complications. # John Moser Atkins recommended we eat less starch. He was right. Loonies recommended we eat 50 pounds of bacon and zero starch. # ArooMadazda Glad that is working for you, but the exact opposite is true for me. When I eat wheat and too many carbs, I feel bad, can’t sleep, and gain weight. When I stay away from the above, I feel great, lose weight and sleep all night. I guess it goes to show that not everyone is the same. * Idnylar You got that right! * http://www.cheese.com/ John Goatbirth The sushi situation is such a bugger – it would be really damn healthy, but for the mercury content. * izahavinpizza1 boy, could I go for a white rice & fried chicken sandwich on nice thick white bread * http://www.nwidesigns.com Kevin Morrison Moderation is the key, if you ask the right moron everything can be listed as bad for you. Its all about balance and if you balance your diet most all this nonsense about what is and is not healthy means squat! * Akgrandma No Hammibal, you are acting like a Dodo. The reasoning goes like this: we are apes (by some people’s contention;) apes eat meat; we can (and should) eat meat also. Let’s don’t warp the subject into something it is not. * http://stephenjones2013.wordpress.com/ Stephen Jones Some fats are very bad and some fats are good for you. When will fustian24 get the message? * SupeRed09 What’s this? Energy Bars have actual energy in them? Well I never…! * jonas (guest) Kind of an obvious set of articles, for the most part. Of course consumerist eating habits rely on a lot of dumb that should maybe be pointed out. Granola bars and prepared salads an unhealthy grab at our wallet, gee who knew food product designers were so unethical? We’re up the creek health-wise from eating and don’t even see how it happened. Scoundrels!! Eat less, eat better, eat less processed, and eat enough (or you) good suitable food you’ve properly educated yourself about. And yes being active however you can is a panacea. * cjhall You need another brand of Greek yogurt, then. You’re buying some kind of Franken-yogurt. Fage Total 0% Plain, which is also my favorite and should be the only kind a person buys, contains only Grade A Pasteurized Skimmed Milk, Live Active Yogurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei). Copied directly from the container. Add your own flavor and sweetness with fresh fruit. If you buy it already flavored, then yeah, you’re going to get some weird ingredients. * Decom Poster The obvious here is not that all of these are unhealthy options, but that it may seem to be very difficult to get unprocessed stuff in USA. Tomato sauce for example, here the option is to buy tomato in a can? pureed tomato? Why don’t you buy natural tomatoes, onion, garlic, fresh basil, olive oil and sea salt? Then cook everything and you’ll get real tomato sauce. Artificial sweeteners are not the problem here, te problem is that you can drink as much as you can and you’ll never feel full. Can you eat 10 oranges? Don’t think so, but it is very easy to drink 2 pints of orange juice with all the natural sugar and excess vitamins. Natural sugar is still sugar and any excess will finish in your gut and buttocks. Control yourself, drink coffee without sugar, water alone and learn to cook something from natural ingredients for God’s sake! * Ellis Richards I think the biggest idea is that people think grains are totally good for you. They are LESS “good” than meats. and yes, too many calories from any source makes ya fat. logically. Ain’t no confusion. the “argument” is mostly about meat. in today’s society, MEAT is getting a bad bad rap…. way too much bad press. + Scott White Well the “bad press” is there for a reason…reasons i’m SURE you disagree with. Even with “proof” or stats or experiments…I’m SURE you’d say they aren’t good enough for one reason or another…just the same as someone with the opposite argument would say. For alot of people some “proof” isn’t good enough. The real question is…can a person be healthy and fit…without meat. Is it possible? I don’t expect you to answer this..i expect the vegans to prove it (many of them have, and many of them fail). * mark Isn’t lots of calories the point? I mean im sure if you just sit on your ass and do nothing you will gain weight, but if you do anything active, such as spend the better part of your day climbing a large mountain, a high calorie light weight source of protein like an energy bar is great. Particularly if its a hot summer day, something with sugar and salt in it is great, since you lose so much sweating. * Scott White So…your solution? I mean it’s almost as if…we should be more like cavemen? i think your forgetting how different times were…rape was considered almost normal…pillage and plundering…people also did not nearly live as long. It almost sounds like you think they had it…all figured out, or you admire them. I personally would rather deal with the school shootings than the constant death that “war” seems to bring…and that is just as old. * Scott White Good post man: ) * Scott White Well…many people agree i’m sure…and many will disagree…the average joe and educated nutritionist’s alike. My question is…what would are “ancestors” have done…IF they had the opportunities like us… + scofflaw What do those old ancestors know anyway? They are all dead. * Max_Freedom Fat from nuts is nothing to be concerned about.This is silly. * Shelley_B The whole diet discussion is a crazy one. Okay, I don’t eat the mentioned foods since I don’t like sugar. But seriously, why do people fuss over grains or proteins. I hate low fat food, since it’s tasteless. The key is to eat only what your body needs. The problem is excess. I always asked myself where the usda found the 2000 calorie diet, but upon examining labels from so called healthy juices, I got a very good idea. The only grain I definitely eat is rice and no more than my body is able to use. By the way, proteins are not hard on your kidneys as long as they are in natural form. * Tonkatoytonya Plenty of protein in your diet is the way forward, less carb! * ARBEE Wow. After reading the comments I can see why we are so unhealthy. FACT: Animals eat healthy plants and then we eat the animals. This is a SECONDARY MACRO-nutrient. FACT: The digestive system of ANY meat eater is SHORT for a reason. You have to eat a ton of meat to get any nutrition out of it, hence the shorter digestive track. So we have 2 food groups, not 4. The first one is MICRO-nutrient. The second is MACRO-nutrient. DAIRY is NOT food. And when your body leeches calcium out of your bones so that it can process meat and dairy, stop wondering why you have osteo. The whole idea of nutrition wont kick in until its too late and you are on a hospital bed. FACT:Ask ANY doctor , anywhere. They will tell you to eat more veggies/fruit. Make a blended shake or 2 everyday with fresh fruit & veggies… NOT juice. You WILL live and feel better AND lose weight, guaranteed. I’ll bet everything I own on that statement. ;-) * Sincerely Yours Learning all the time. * potteremma Just remember, You don’t have to feel full all the time. Being hungry(Not Faint) is just fine for a couple hours before eating. Half the worlds population lives on a handful of rice each day and is very hungry all the time. A lot of them live to be over a hundred years old. * tokoloshiman eat drink and be merry , it may be your last opportunity! * Tim Brown Trail Mix exists because it is extremely dense when it comes to calories – for it’s weight it packs a lot of energy – it was created for that very purpose. So it isn’t really fair to call it “unhealthy”. Anything that is designed for athletes on the go, probably should not be eaten by people tying to lose weight. Just as a runner will load up on pasta prior to a race or marathon, somebody trying to eliminate body fat should stay away from that meal. * Gregory Brown Trail mix is called that for a reason. Its calories are meant to fuel hiking on a trail. * harryhill Really, actually FIBER is the bad one. Million of words devoted to the need to have Fiber by the tons. Read Fiber Menace. Trying to get over impactation using fiber intake did me in. * Ronin There were no overweight people in Belsen, and all the other starvation death camps, its all about stuffing food down your throats. As for grains, they contain a cocktail of chemicals to be mass produced and genetically altered. Almost everything we eat and drink, has a chemical content, we consume a mass of chemicals every day. Even the “air” we breath is laden with filth. Just start by checking out the “contents and ingredients” hidden away on the packaging. * James Holy geeze, why the continued emphasis on fat? How about this, make a google search for something along the lines of “bioavailability nutrients fat” and you will probably find lots of scholarly articles talking about how everything from caretonoids to you name it is ONLY useable by your body in the presence of dietary fat. This is because many of the vitamins and nutrients we require, especially the ones from vegetables, are fat soluble. Bottom line? If you eat a salad with lots of fat, you will get the most out of the vegetables. If you eat a salad with no added fat or sugar, you won’t get much out of them but it won’t heart you. If you eat a salad with no fat but added sugar(every low-fat dressing on the market, basically) it will actually be deleterious to your health. * nikz nik Everyone has mentioned about calories, Fats and Carbohydrates. Haven’t you all thought about people have different metabolisms. I have a fast metabolism and I burn fat quicker than people with slow metabolism; however as I am becoming older my metabolisming is becoming slower. Exercise is very important and since I have stopped going to the gym for nearly 9 months I feel crap. Tiredness, lethargic, lack of energy, lazy, feeling Ill and I am pretty sure I have gained weight even though I hardly eat junk food. I eat whole meal chapptis with healthy indian curries and eat meat once a week. But I am really addictive to Coca Cola * The Kreator Many studies in the past five to ten years have concluded that the healthiest that the population of the UK has been in the last 100 years was during WW2 when the population was pretty much forced via rationing and food shortages to eat mostly leafy and root vegetables and ALL of any animal slaughtered, which means eating ofel as well as meat, but keeping to a minimum the animals consumed as these were a very inefficient food source, the single biggest factor of this diet was the scarcity and therefore reduced indulgence in food. As well as the effect of diet, many more people were taken out of their inactive lifestyles and forced to work, meaning everyone even Royalty had sufficient exercise. We have a lot to learn from these studies. * skinnyribs2 How does the Atkins diet work then? + Michael Kendrick The Atkins diet revolves around ketone metabolism and high fat consumption. So, fat as you know it is in the form of a triglyceride. This is three fatty acids attached to a glycerol molecule. In order to digest fat for energy, you have to break off the fatty acids, attach CoA to them (fatty acids are dangerously reactive without CoA on them), get them through the mitochondrial membrane, and begin exposing them to the enzymes of beta oxidation. Because CoA is involved in this process, you can only metabolize (burn) so much fat at a time. Also, there are separate pools of CoA on either side of the mitochondrial membrane because in order to pass a fatty acid through you have to swap the CoA for carnitine temporarily and then swap back on the other side. When you eat a diet that is very high in fat and extremely low in carbs, you get to the point where your CoA pools are insufficient to process all of the fat that you need to, and your body will start to make ketones out of your fat instead, mostly in your liver. These ketones proceed through your bloodstream to nourish organs and tissues in a similar way as caloric foods do, and are only made because you aren’t supplying your body with the carbs it needs in the first place. It sounds good on the surface. But it is not. For example, your brain exclusively runs on glucose or ketones–it cannot use protein or fat to nourish its cells. If you don’t give it glucose, you run the risk of damaging it. There are a lot of problems with the Atkins diet though. First of all, metabolism of all of your sources of energy are tied to hormones like glucocorticoids and mineralcorticoids, so eating essentially zero carbs will probably screw up your endocrine system. Second of all, partly as a consequence of the first point and partly as a consequence of fat metabolism, you get really dehydrated on the Atkins diet. Initially, you will be losing mostly water weight, not fat. A lot of people think of weight loss and healthy weight in terms of pounds when they should be thinking body composition–a lady can weigh 150 pounds being mostly adipose tissue and not look attractive in the slightest, or she can weigh 150 pounds being mostly lean muscle with a little bit of body fat and then she looks so good she’s out of your league. Third, and this is the decisive point for me personally, on the Atkins diet you’re eating mostly protein and fat. This has consequences for your health aside from weight loss. Eating too much protein is very hard on your kidneys and heart–that’s well-documented by hundreds of studies. Eating too much fat is more complicated because there are different kinds of fat, but with protein sources the fat is usually saturated (the worst kind for you). You always transport fat around in your body as either fatty acids attached to special transport proteins in your blood or as triglycerides in special spherical packages called chylomicrons in your blood. These chylomicrons have different names depending on which proteins are responsible for holding them together, but you’re going to be most familiar with HDL and LDL. You see, they also carry around cholesterol. Neither HDL nor LDL is “bad cholesterol” by itself–in order to become dangerous these carrier molecules need to participate in unlikely side reactions where they get oxidized, glycosylated, acetylated, etc. If that happens, they have the potential to invade your arterial walls as foam cells and contribute to atherosclerosis. As I mentioned previously, saturated fat causes LDL receptors in cells to be made less frequently (these receptors take LDL out of your blood stream and into individual cells where it can be processed safely & normally) by physically blocking some of the machinery that makes those receptors. Also, on the Atkins diet you are far more likely to be seeing oxidized LDL molecules in the first place for two main reasons: 1–most antioxidant nutrition comes in the form of carbs, such as fruits, and you need antioxidants to prevent oxidation, duh. Furthermore, antioxidants that don’t come packaged with carbs in nature STILL need carbs to be made. Example: in the first steps of glycolysis carbs can enter the pentose phosphate pathway: Glucose -> Glucose-6-Phosphate -> 6-Phosphogluconolactone + NADPH. NADPH is a critical antioxidant. The PPP is not the only source, but it is the major source of NADPH in most organisms. So yeah, carbs are necessary for proper health. 2–the sheer number of LDL molecules circulating through your blood stream is going to be much higher on the Atkins diet than it would be on a sane diet because the sheer proportion of your calories that come from fat is much higher on the Atkins diet. You’re more likely to maximize your aterial clogging and potential for heart attacks because you will have more LDL and be less able to keep it from participating in unwanted side reactions on the Atkins diet. And that is how the diet “works,”or rather, doesn’t work. I’ll say it again, the body builders are the closest so far, just don’t go popping all their bottles of dangerous supplements. o jayv58 I don’t think you answered the question, the question being if the only thing that matters is calories in / calories burned, then why will one way of eating (for example, more calories in an Atkins diet), allow one to lose weight, while eating less calories in another diet will not lead to weight loss). The logical answer can only be one of two answers, there is more to it than “calories in / calories burned” or you are actually eating less calories in the Atkins diet but just don’t realize it. # Michael Kendrick You want to know how the Atkins Diet makes you lose weight? I’ll spell it out for you: Step 1: you forcibly shut down carbohydrate metabolism. Step 2: you start using mostly fat for energy, which produces water waste. Step 3: you pee out the water waste. Step 4: once your body realizes you aren’t giving it carbs for energy, the organs that can’t even USE fat for energy start crying (not literally). Step 5: In order to free up CoA molecules, you stop digesting fat for energy through beta oxidation (the normal way) and start making ketone bodies out of the fatty acid molecules instead, primarily in your liver. Step 6: you start using these ketone molecules to try to compensate for not having any sugar that organs like your brain NEED. Step 7: these ketones smell funny, and now so does your breath, which is how anyone can tell which diet you’re on. Step 8: You will lose water weight first, which has nothing to do with calories, but is unhealthy. You will lose some fat too, but only if your calories in < calories out. The one exception is if you don't have the required micronutrients to actually process food for energy (fat for example takes pantothenic acid and niacin and flavoproteins among others), then you are starving yourself. Usually this doesn't happen because Atkins includes vegetables, which are great sources of these micronutrients. Conclusion: Provided you are not nutritionally deficient, even on the Atkins Diet your weight revolves around calories in vs calories out, but the initial weight you lose which is independent of caloric intake will be from dehydrating yourself. Congratulations on that. @ Paul_Buhl One does not need to be a bio-chemist to eat right. Use common sense and listen to your own body. Stop eating junk white flour and refined sugar, period. You can include carbs from grain, but avoid whole grain flour as well. Use real “whole” grain (not ground into a super concentrated flour state) like flour-less sprouted grain bread, and keep even those grains in lower balance with lean protein, vegetables and fat. You will know what works for you by feeling the results. # drx1 People rarely track their calories. If they do it is not for long… calories tst you don’t burn are turned to fat (storage) for your body. Having some fat is good. Some diets can cause the body to go in ‘starvation mode’ and the body will burn less calories … your metabolism goes down (you have less energy). This is why eating healthy is key – so is a healthy gut. Processes foods are bad. Processes sugars are worse. Artificial sugars are even worse still, unless your body is already wrecked. Drinking water and # WeAreNotAmused Many people are eating foods their body does not properly digest, which in turn can lead to weight gain. Reworking one’s diet to the foods your body can handle (skip all the processed crap being a huge consideration). It takes some time and experimenting, but it’s worth it in the end. # je many people do not lose weight on atkins – it still has to be calories . . . but most people can’t tolerate a pure protein/fat diet over time (ie, their calories end up decreasing). * nyran125tk so eat salad with wholemeal bread with no sauces and you should be fine * Jman Trail Mix is not meant to be healthy, the reason it is called trail mix is because when you are out camping or otherwise it is meant to be a high calories intake for survival. Of course trail mix is going to be fatty, it is meant to be. * Chris Brown I am in the interesting situation where I need lots and lots of calories cos I’m tall I mean there will be lots of people who think that’s a good thing but I find it hard to keep weight on, alot of the fatty foods I tend to eat alot cos I just don’t cook enough at home, theres no substitution for home cooking though, as for energy bars and energy drinks I used to get loaded up on a couple a day and it just made me overly stimulated, coffee is my personal fave for quick energy * Mark Penrice I suppose a couple of these might be sort of surprising to some people…? But most of them shouldn’t really be that much of a shock. 1/ Muesli is basically trail mix in a bowl, with milk on it. It’s a high energy breakfast for people who are going out into the snow all day to do strenuous things, whether recreational skiing or chopping down trees. Shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s loaded with calories and sugar. The fat is a bit of a surprise, granted, but that’s less problematic than the sugar rush. Making your own can help, but it doesn’t avoid the fact of its origin. 2/ Banana chips. The clue’s in the name. Specifically, the “chip” bit. Nothing that comes as a “chip” can be considered good for you. Notwithstanding that bananas are a pretty sugary, fatty excuse for a fruit in the first place. Bonus on #3 – although I would actually have suspected Tuna as being an otherwise healthy choice (so long as you don’t take the easy option of slathering it in mayonnaise and instead either take it straight or with a sparing dash of soy sauce and/or a glug of rice vinegar, etc), the fish is established and well known as a strong muscular bioaccumulator of toxins like mercury and that your intake should be limited… at least since Minamata, anyway. Which was already old news when I was at school and learning about it in geography class. On top of that, we have the issue of taking it as sushi (already a slight risk in of itself – what, no grilled steak, or having it tinned?)… and a maybe more pressing one of 6+ ounces of it actually being rather expensive. If you can easily afford to eat that much of it a week, you can probably find room in your budget for a dialysis machine to hook yourself up to whilst eating, set up to strip as much mercury from your blood as possible even as you absorb it from your meal. I’ve no worries about overdosing, as even the little “4 ounce” (3 actual ounces when drained) supermarket tins are getting ever pricier and it’s now more of a sandwich filling treat than a staple… the fresh cuts are far worse, possibly more expensive even than lamb / veal / venison. 4/ Energy bars … if you really need it pointed out that something that is basically a chocolate or candy bar, with extra sugar and stimulants shoved into it to make it an “Energy” (big clue there! calories = energy!) bar, then there’s probably no hope for your life as an independent adult. Maybe I’m a freak but it was always obvious, and I’ve only ever viewed them as an emergency pick-me-up, a system reviver when it’s becoming very hard to continue with the day, that I might have half a dozen of during the year and then try to eat extra healthily the next day to compensate for it (ditto Energy Drinks, especially the high powered ones that leave you feeling like a robot with an overloaded battery). Never as a “healthy snack”. 5/ Trail mix. IT’S EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO POWER YOU UP AND OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES, ON FOOT, AND NAMED AS SUCH. What part of that suggested it wouldn’t be full of empty calories that are intended to be digested and absorbed as easily and quickly as possible and sent straight into your blood… and from there, ideally, right into your muscles, turned into movement, heat and carbon dioxide, with the latter being quickly breathed out? Or, if you’re just snacking on it without exercising, into your fat cells after a quick sojourn in the liver? (What next, you reveal that Kendal Mint Cake is actually a block of pure sugar with a dash of mint extract, coated with the thinnest possible layer of dark chocolate, and it’s probably not a good idea to view it as a healthy option that’s OK to nibble on whilst slouched on your sofa?) I think the upshot of all this can be summed up as “just because it has fruits and grains in it doesn’t automatically make it healthy”. Which one would hope might be obvious to anyone who’s ever eaten a black forest gateau. 6/ OK, it’s a salad. It’s also slathered in oily and oddly sweet dressing. At what point did the alarm bells not go off? If you must order a salad from McDonalds, ask for them to either hold the dressing, or at least give it to you on the side. Then muse on how you could have got the same thing for a quarter of the price from Walmart. And let’s not even start on other things that abuse the falsely “automatically healthy” “salad” name such as potato, waldorf, etc. I wouldn’t worry about the parmesan, though. You get so little of it – thanks to how strongly flavoured it is – that until it starts to overpower the rest of the dish you can pretty much ignore it. Similarly if you make a greek salad and have a few cubes of feta and a cheeky drizzle of olive oil and balsamic. It’s the soggifying masses of mayo or readymade vinaigrette (which has a much smaller vinegar:oil ratio) that’s the real problem. PS a salad that actually has any kind of meat in it other than maybe plain, undressed tuna or a smaller amount of absolutely lean, plain chicken is a false salad. Especially so if it’s bacon. Go veggie / pescatarian, and have whatever meat you want in your meal on the side in explicit addition to the salad, or go home as you’re only fooling yourself. 7/ This is the main “surprise” (besides the tuna, I guess). Who would have thought there was so much sugar in even relatively plain yoghurt? However, it is now established as a common cheat for low-fat products to have a lot of sugar in them (and indeed, low-fat and low-sugar ones to have a lot of artificial sweetener, which can be its own problem besides the disgusting aftertaste). Otherwise the stuff just tastes bland. Once you start looking, you see it everywhere. It’s why I pretty much abhor all “diet” and “low fat” type foods, because not only do they taste or “feel” wrong, but they’re not actually any better for you unless they have so much taken out that they’re barely recognisable as what they once were and utterly unenjoyable. Better to have a smaller amount of the original thing along with a healthy, cheap, filling staple, and learn to ration and appreciate it instead of stuffing your face with crap. The exception is when they’re on clearance in the shop – being rather poverty stricken, low price trumps all other concerns. Which is why this week I have worked my way through a pack of “low fat” crumpets (I’m not even sure where the fat IS in regular ones – I thought they were just flour, water and yeast! It’s kind of the point!). With acceptable amounts of what would otherwise be considered rather fatty toppings (given extra flavour with a smear of yeast extract). Anyhoo. Sidestep it by just having a smaller, sensible amount of the real thing. It’s actually better for you that way. Plain greek style yoghurt (either set, or bio-active) with some fresh fruit on top. Nice :) * Susan Great post! I wish I had started eating like that years ago instead of waiting until I needed triple bypass surgery. Now, I am not allowed to eat some of the healthy foods you mentioned. live and learn the hard way. By the way, I have always been slender and exercised. * Sylvie You are still wrong about the fact the high cholesterol is bad. IT’S NOT! but i guess that truth will take few more years to come out and for the brainwashing to be undone, as it will be fought -and i can imagine how hard- by Big Pharma. How can they let go the gazillions of dollars that the cholesterol lowering legal scam made them? + D’Lene Just recently read that some of the cholesterol fighting drugs are worse for you than the cholesterol. o Rich39 My GP put me on Cholesterol medicine. My heart doctor took me OFF cholesterol medicine. Plus two other drugs the GP prescribed. The GP give me 6 drugs to prevent future problems. My heart doctor said….No, they cause other problems now. Weight gain, fluid build up in my body, aches and pains etc. # Sylvie You can fix all that Rich39 with the right food. Get off sugar and other manufactured carbs. They call it now Paleo diet, but it’s just the way humans should eat. Meat, fats, eggs and some vegg. All non-processed and fresh- you gotta do the cooking, man. Then watch your cholesterol drop/normalise and all other issues go away. Do it for 2 weeks first then go measure your cholesterol levels and let us know..and let me know how you feel :) If any of you asks how dare I to give any advice- well did his Md’s cure Rich39 of any issues? LOL Changing the DIET is key as BAD FOOD and DIGESTIVE issues and DEFICIENCIES caused by that are why we get sick in the first place. Understanding the root cause of illness is key. Root cause of 95% of illnesses is nutritional (plus some enviro poisoning of course). So how do u think any MD is going to help you with that? lol Just pls don’t expect it to get all fixed up overnight what you kept ruining for years. :) Notice how MD’s maintain him on THEIR own set of drugs! haha! Clever! They get paid for every prescription they write. :) .Keeping people sick is an awesome business. cheers @ HealthyPeopleDontNeedMedicine Remember that it’s not all about what goes IN your body, but also about how your body can process it. Naturally, a whole-foods, non processed, based approach makes the most sense, but also realize that STRESS is a Huge factor. when the fight or flight response is always on then the rest and digest mode is not going to work properly and self-healing will be severely limited. @ Sylvie well that is another issue. food is key however as if you have health body you will handle stress differently. cheers :) @ mplo I tend to agree with HealthPeopleDontNeedMedicine, up to a point. Being constantly subject to excessive amounts of stress does impair the body’s ability to absorb essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals, because the person’s whole system is thrown out of kilter, compromising one’s immune system and the rest/digest mode, thus compromising, prolonging, or even preventing self-healing. On the other hand, however, there are certain neurological conditions for which daily medication(s) is/are needed in order to keep them under control. Since such conditions are conditions that people are just born with, that can’t be helped, and medications are necessary to stabilize the person, thus enabling him/her to lead a normal, healthy and productive life, like most everybody else. @ Alexander I totally agree with you on that. I had anxiety-related sleep problems my entire life until I went paleo. I still got stressed from school and other obligations after starting paleo, but I haven’t had a sleeping problem for years since going paleo. @ ArooMadazda Same for me! I can finally sleep. @ misty swamp Well said, Ms Lady. @ Otto C You had me until “They get paid for every prescription they write. :) .Keeping people sick is an awesome business.” It’s just not true, most MDs are well meaning & do not get paid to write scripts. You should be careful making false statements like that-it may be unintentional, but it can negate everything else you wrote, which was dead on. @ Don Smith No that was intentional. I want to like this Sylvie person, but after reading her comments I have found her to be a very close minded person when it come to accepting the fact that she may be wrong. She also seen to be a “know it all” providing the “correct answer” to any disbeliever who offers up scientific explanation on why she is wrong about something like evolution, and then laughing in their face about how wrong they are with a conveniently place “LOL”. She has the right ideas but lacks the character and maturity to accept that they are not 100% correct all of the time. @ Darkthirty Wrongo on the $ for scrip @ JaiGuru The paleo” diet is A: Nothing like what our paleolithic ancestors ate, B: implicated in life threatening pancreatic diseases and C: paleolithic people’s life spans topped out around 30. So…yeah. @ davidrn Actually you are just repeating the Vegan religious comments, and we all know that shpiel. Where are you coming up with that idiotic pancreatic disease comment? Let me guess, the China Study? Also, until the turn of the 20th Century, Paleo man lived as long as any other human on Earth, Paleo man have been found who were quite old, the average age is about deaths in infancy. @ nomadnewyork They don’t get paid for writing prescriptions. That’s highly illegal. They don’t even get free pens and coffee any more. @ rat killer I know many doctors and they all literally get free lunches for themselves and staff brought in daily by pharmaceutical reps–always with plenty left over. Not to mention the free samples and whatever else I don’t get to see. @ good grief Since when do doctors get paid for every prescription they write? That is the biggest load I have ever heard! Doctors don’t get paid per perscription!!!! @ Michele LOL! Yeah! Doctor get a kick back from the pharma companies every time they prescribe their drug! I read a book called the 21 Day Kickstart that changed my health incredibly. A friends dad also went vegan and reversed his diabetes and cholesterol issues, lost a bunch of weight, and breathed new life into his marriage. So much of peoples medical issues today are due to improper nutrition but doctors would rather prescribe a pill than encourage you to change your diet first. But then again most doctors know very little about nutrition! @ fizix It seems the nutritionists don’t know what they need to know either. The ones I have experience with will tell you the standard set of ideas presented in the article here, without much knowledge or recognition of more recent research, especially in terms of misconceptions about fat. @ PDuncan12345 So true. Most people have no idea that Physicians are not required to take a single unit of Nutrition in their coursework. Not one. If “we are what we eat” what the *@#!! is going on there?! @ Rhett J D. Been on paleo for 8 years only way to eat the other way is what is killing us all . # misty swamp GPs should not be prescribing MOST medication. They are NOT specialists even though they’d like to think they are, especially with psychiatric meds. @ Mike Psychiatrists are the lowest Dr.’s in the food chain. Unfortunately they know little of the excellent comments I’ve seen in this comment trail. # kaj You should listen to your heart specialist. A lot of GP are overdiagnosed the problem due to the liability issues. For me, I don’t go to an obese GP who tries to feed me with all the medicine because he can’t even have a solution for his own obesity then how can i trust his advice. # Paleo FTW You need to stop eating processed foods and food with added sugar. Eat organic natural foods… Including fatty foods… real butter, eggs, meats, vegetables, etc. Don’t buy anything in a box or made in a factory… You’ll be good as new in no time. Don’t listen to the lies about fat and cholesterol. o Eddie Coyle I’ve been on the lowest level cholesterol drug for two years. Wallah, my liver readings are elevated! so the doctor is taking me off cholesterol drugs to see what effect that has. I’m 51, I eat healthy compared to most, but I think it is time to GROW UP and go to a truly healthy, natural diet. Drop the bread, drop the pasta & alcohol, avoid processed food. SO much more is known now than even 30 years ago. Not that the knowledge is perfect, so much turns out wrong, but the basics never seem to. If it was made by nature and humans have eaten it for years, it seems to be the best choice. Eggs, meat, veggies, nuts, fruit. + Sumer54 Cholesterol comes in two forms – HDL, high density lipoprotein, is not bad. LDL, low density liproprotien IS bad. o Sylvie umm that is not enough to say. do you know what that actually means and who labelled cholesterol that? :) o krocklin A healthy person’s cholesterol is 75% LDL. It too is naturally produced in the liver and serves a function. + krocklin How right you are. Scams like cholesterol seem to take root and never die in the Medical Industry. The doctors and food and drug industry just won’t let go of this myth. I spend a lot of time collecting studies that prove this and send them to friends in an effort to get them to stop statins. Their muscles and their memories are going noticeably as they continue to take these poisons, which suppress your body’s natural production of cholesterol, vitamin K, vitamin D (indirectly) and coQ10. The irony is that most statins are prescribed to older people, who need MORE cholesterol as they age for the proper functioning of every cell in their body. + dupkaman I guess all those cardiologists, internists and cardiac surgeons are lying to you because they are in bed with all those evil drug companies…..right? Cholesterol and Saturated fats are bad for you if you are prone to CAD. As is the case with pediatricians who vaccinate their own children despite the loonies who claim it causes autism, physicians take statins themselves. If it were a scam, would they be taking them? o Mike Do your homework. There’s no giant conspiracy, just ignorance. Cardiologists know nothing about preventive medicine, they fix broken vascular systems. They never leran about prevention. Statins will prove to be bad by all measures. Just give it time. + Rusty catania Sylvie….Thanks goodness for the internet…Right? The truth about diet, fat, sugar and food can be found by searching the web. Ancel Keys and his skewed study, George McGovern and his war on heart disease has sent our country down a terrible road. On top of that, the crony corporatism of the food industry that manufactures products that make us sick….what a battle we have on our hands….whew + Robert W mine is 241 it is well out of the range what should i do if eliminate the 3 pints of milk and occasional pizza ice cream and mac n cheese maybe lower by 80 points and the kicker is i have low vit d and testosterone go figure what else is needed maybe some b-complex help it along Isnt it ok to have high cholesterol as long it not sticking to platelets or arterial walls * vitalee THANK YOU for your comment! I have type II diabetes from eating all those lovely no good for us grains that I love, bake, and crave. When I was sick with GBS and rehabilitating in a nursing home, they constantly gave me white bread, puddings, ice cream, white rice and other types foods that I have tried to stop eating at home. They would then take your blood sugar count and then comment, oh, your blood sugar is way up, we are going to have to double your insulin this evening ( by the way I’m off of insulin and on pills to control my diabetes, and plan on eating in a manner that will get me off of those). Our eating habits are way off course. I have read numerous times that the grains that we eat today is so altered that even it if was good for out ancestors, it’s no longer good for us. * nightwriter “Trail Mix” is called that because its supposed to be a quick energy snack for when you’re hiking – anyone who eats it when they’re just sitting around isn’t even trying to understand nutrition. * Bert Buddy you’re dead wrong. Calories don’t count. That is so ’80’s. What makes you fat is the insulin response to those calories. Your body is very different than a calorimeter. * Nick Stokes simple formula= eat less + burn more = weight loss, 3rd grade math! * Ink Wells Rock Kind of common sense. To lose weight NO SUGAR: no bread, no pasta, no corn, no flour, no sugar, no sweetened drinks, no dairy. It takes three days for sugar to be out of your body. Raw fish is not good (ever) and SUSHI is raw fish (parasites and toxins). Raw meat too is bad. Salads with vinegar & oil are OK.. top them with canned tuna, salmon, hard boiled eggs, tofu, beets, carrots (not beans or cheese or raisins or sweetened dressings). The yogurt is OK (<100 cal) .. use fiber (metamucil) LOSE weight. Be happy + Road Less Traveled Except, that is a crash diet. We actually need some carbohydrates, in moderation. A zero carb diet is not healthy for your body. Just have it in small amounts, focus on whole grains and complex carbohydrates, not white flour/bread/sugar/rice. * http://wwww.youniqpilates.com/ YOUNIQ Pilates Read the labels and there will be no surprises to this list. * thirdman Actually they forgot to mention that sushi themselves (not only tuna sushi) are not all that health since they mix a large amount of sugar into its rice (not to mention rice itself is high on carbs/sugar). Whenever I go to a sushi restaurant in the US, I see a large number of obese people. You can certainly get fat by keeping eating sushi. * Castlekeep Our ancestors ate what they found or hunted before farming became a way of life and people were no longer seasonally migrant, but the foods they ate hadn’t been genetically tampered with, enhanced, chemically sprayed, packaged with preservatives, so it’s very difficult to live healthfully without doing your own research about nutrition. The fact that remains is that we can’t trust the FDA to protect us from additives, pesticides, artificial sweeteners. fluoride and the list goes on. We all have to, in self defense, become our own health guardians. It takes time and a higher level of commitment from each of us to know what to eat and how to eat it, but it’s that or take meds for the rest of our lives that have side-effects that are often worse than the “illnesses” caused by what we put into our bodies that are often considered food. + BuckSargent And many starved or suffered from malnutrition and pretty much died at much earlier age. There are lots of microbes out there just waiting as opportunists of spoil food, producing biotoxins that aren’t particularly good for the human physiology. As for genetic alterations, natural selection has been giving us all sorts of recombinant DNA enhancements and mutations. Ironic, if you applied the same logic to vaccinations, which is not typically a natural approach to immunization, there would be a lot more disease and pestilence throughout the world. Notwithstanding all that, you are correct to stop and think about what you’re consuming. o Sylvie They died from malnutrition and we massively die from cancer, heart disease, diabetes,and the rest of bad food induced illnesses. The rest of us is sick if still alive. What was your point again? lol + Sunil Thomas The advantage of being an ancient hunter/ gatherer is that the body was in movement. Hunting and gathering were physical activities. Today, most of us go to a supermarket, but prepackaged foods, eat and live a sedentary life. Most of the health problems facing the US has to do with our lack of physical activity. * Leo Yes…Fat is good.(unsaturated) Yes we are apes! But we have ALWAYS been l e a n. Fat happens on a good season maybe …or seasonal but except for certain diets and lifestyles weve been lean. Science now knows that as bi-pedals we always could simply follow another beast until it litteraly collapsed. Then conk it on the head or what not. Our mode of travel is so effective and view of the land allowed us to run down many animals to exhaustion.Like a dog running a deer to death. Our bodies perform more efficiently as we lose weight. Like being starving and following and animal for days. The animal cant eat or rest and collapses eventually. Recently the woman were found to be involved in this hunting technique. We were always migrating as needed. Following food, or seasonal forageing. And we gobbled fat and still can. And NOT GET HUGE. Unless we confuse the body with all hi carb foods. It cause blood sugar variations beyond normal. This causes stress in so many body systems. Less blood sugar fluctuation in our lives… the longer we will live. * gsp9993 Ah yes, the gullibility of Americans is outrageous. What until they find out the truth about the so called organic foods they have been eating. Shocking!. They are being tooled by the largest food businesses in the whole. + Road Less Traveled Except, the organic business by far is not the largest portion of either production or sale. It’s the corporate agrobusinesses that are, which are also heavily subsidized by the government. * K. I work with some obese women that are also experts in weight loss. I always thought, eat responsibly, more activity. Too difficult? * Just my view If the food police had their way all food would be outlawed in this country, everything we eat is suppose to be bad for us. It amazes me how many people actually believe all this propaganda, the reason people in the USA are fat obese chubby etc..is because they eat too much and have no self control, the country has turned into a bunch of overweight lazy slobs. * Sagesteve Any of these you could figure out for yourself if you are knowledgeable. The worst? ANY kind of Sushi. You eat ANY Sushi? You will get and you do have parasites…period. If you are always not feeling “well”? Do a parasitic cleanse. You will feel a thousand times better. Don’t do an extreme one…just the standard “kill ‘em” with the appropriate system. * Chloe Smith Life’s too short. If I want to eat some frosting, I will. * oracle2world Except for the tuna sushi, i do not like any of this s* anyway. There is no worry i am going to eat it. * Kisha Oakes I’m on Day 9 of a 21 day sugar detox and I can definitely tell the difference! Hoping by Day 21 though some of this food tastes better than it does now lol * Paul This article makes it sound as though the chief concern you should have is for your waistline or weight. Things that are packed with nutrients like some energy bars are great for you. So they have lots of calories in them, so what? That’s what they’re for, to give you energy before, during or after strenuous physical activity. Cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes–these are what you need to be look out for. * Jason Arkin Praying for the pandemic. * AUricle It CAN be diet related…..genetics plays a role in how your body deals with fat etc. too. It ‘s more about how you metabolize food, than it is about your fat consumption. * Sylvie yes and no. to simplify- body needs to maintain a constant levels of cholesterol. if you don’t give it enough of sat. fats -your liver will produce more cholesterol. What a big surprise.. :) Cholest. in food doesn’t affect blood cholest. levels. If it does -its just for a moment. (Sorta like sugar kicks your insulin levels sky high for a moment :)) Normal digestion process. Liver function is key but you will affect liver function with sugar- huge connection here. :) Good/bad cholesterol is another myth, as ‘bad’ chol. is not really bad. :) oh how about this : In the Framingham Heart Study, in subjects over 50 years of age, they found an 11% increase overall and 14% increase in cardiovascular disease mortality per 1 mg/dL per year drop in total cholesterol levels. The researchers attributed this phenomenon to the fact that people with severe chronic diseases or cancer tend to have below-normal cholesterol levels.[71] This explanation is not supported by the Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Promotion Programme, in which men of all ages and women over 50 with very low cholesterol were likely to die of cancer, liver diseases, and mental diseases. LOL @ ‘phenomenon’ People with high levels actually live longer. cheers :) * Steve Matsukawa I eat what I want, but in moderation. I eat a Hostess Twinkie now and then, and a Snickers bar too. I am lactose intolerant so I drink Lact-Aid 100% milk, I am allergic to aspirin and associated products, and I am slightly allergic to unprocessed wool. When the Japanese started eating the Western diet they started getting all of the Western diseases and problems. Yes, they did get arthritis and some became diabetic, but that came from hard work and over indulgence with alcohol. Again, I eat what I want in moderation and I eat as healthy as anyone (veggies, fruits, nuts, etc.) so I don’t get why anyone wants to go on a special diet. Just don’t over indulge and eat moderately. Just keep the alcohol consumption to a couple of ounces a day. * James Wang hmm, white rice, the chinese have been eating that for thousands of years, i don’t see the chinese have any major health problems. + Sunil Thomas It’s a matter of quantity. While most Chinese eat a small bowl of rice, South Indians live on white rice. We eat pancakes made of rice in the morning, a plates of rice with curries for lunch and dinner. Interestingly, we have a high rate of diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, white rice remains our staple diet. * WeAreNotAmused I’ve learned to eat starchier fruit in proportion to non-starchy veg and a proper portion of protein (approx. 5 ounces of most, with 8 ounces for domestic shrimp). Too many people forget about portion sizes, which is half the battle in weight and blood sugar control. + tammytnt I have had surgery that does not allow me to eat much at a time. I eat about a cup of food at a time. Chicken, I can usually eat a breast or at least a part of one, but beef, very little. It is too dense and feels like a rock. I really like veggies, soup, yogurt. If you have any more ideas would love to hear them * markdouglas Thats VERY interesting Forgotten! Im going to look into that. Do you know which Niacin we should take> I did lower my numbers with niacin, but quit taking it, out of laziness I guess. Im not going to eat whole wheat or even much wheat at all, cause Im doing low carb, so do you happen to know WHICH kind of niacin, and how much, to take!! Please respond! + Arcanek You should avoid the time release/flush free/niacinamide versions. The type I get is the 1000mg capsules, which are pure niacin. 1000mg is way too much for most people, so be cautious. I open the capsules and only take about 1/4 or 1/5 of the capsule at a time. You can also get bulk niacin at places like pure bulk. I find that niacin is also great for colds and sinus congestion. It is especially good for bronchitis, where it is extremely difficult to clear your lungs. i just let the tiny amount i take dissolve in my mouth, and in a couple of minutes, a single cough clears clears my lungs. It is amazing how fast it works. Be warned however, that niacin is usually in very short supply during a cold outbreak, as apparently many people know how effective it is. And don’t take too large a dose, as the effect can be quite unpleasant. + Dan Lewin wheat sucks. Get your niacin from beans. * peggy BigPharma does push the statins, even though there is no solid evidence that cholesterol alone is the culprit. One need only ask why, after having most adults in the country on statins, is the leading cause of death still……heart attack?” I thik that we’re missing something, but it’s paying off for the drug pushers. + Sylvie Because it’s not cholesterol that is causing heart disease. But because most people don’t question ‘authority’ and instead of apply logic to obvious facts they continue on the ridiculous path of making gazillions to Big Pharma often paying with their lives.. A main stream ‘doctor’ said to my mother: ‘Your cholesterol is even higher then the 3 months ago. I told you to stop eating any animal products (sat. fat)”. Well she has been off ANY animal products for months and eating mainly carbs (vegge, breads, pasta, fruit, etc.) (carbs are sugar chemically speaking). I asked if she told him that and she said: ‘Yes but he said I’m lying.” That’s where the ‘Dr’s knowledge ended and that’s where hers ended too. Any suggestion that the Dr may be wrong and knows shit- so to say- was inconceivable to her, ‘What do YOU know.. he is a ‘Dr’.. etc etc :D Only now after years of talking, showing a bunch of publications, studies, the brainwashing, the motivation of the machinery behind of drug pushing industry, etc ect, only now she is finally getting it. Angry she had been fooled and sick for decades. An average or sick person mainly just wants to trust that her/his well being is actually the goal and the intention of the ‘health specialists’ But it’s not. We have been ‘trained’ to trust the ‘specialists’ with ‘medical training, asked to see credentials, diplomas,degrees, etc. Do we ever question what those diplomas actually mean? lol. Yes so we are missing something Peggy: common sense, logic, we are naive, trust authority no matter what, we are the many sheep that are being led by the few. Nothing new really :) cheers + Bendy Bentley I have felt HORRIBLE for the past year. I stopped taking my statin, and in less than a week, I feel like a million bucks! * Peter S Excellent description. Live like that since 16 years, superhealthy. Love it. + Sylvie same! :)) * http://cazort.net/ Alex Zorach While I think there are some truths in this article, I don’t like how it’s operating on the assumption of “calories=bad” and especially “fat=bad”, like how it carelessly drops a comment advocating for fat free milk, or saying chips are bad because they contain fat. A lot of foods, like whole milk, nuts, olive oil, are high in fat, but are generally better than low-fat alternatives like fat-free milk or carb-heavy snacks. * Sumer54 Thanks for the clarification. I had never been exposed to this distinction. * Love My Body I eat an Atkins bar for breakfast, an egg white proteinn shake for lunch and a big green salad with grilled fish or chicken for dinner. I enjoy a mid-afternoon snack of a handful of raw almonds and a half cup of blueberries. I do cardio and strength training at the gym 5 days a week and walk 3 miles each day on Saturday and Sunday. No weight or health issues here. If you are trying to lose weight by dieting alone, cardio alone or even a combination of both, YOU WILL NOT GET THE BODY YOU”RE LOOKING FOR! You MUST do some strength training as well!!! + ThatBaldGuy Too true. Cardio is good for you…it promotes better cardiovascular health and for me, anyway, increases my energy and makes me feel better overall. But weight loss? Not. Gotta’ lift ‘dem weights! * alfred ferguson I, too, once thought that you had to be really, really smart to be in med school. Then, I went to college and encountered those in my dorm who were actually in med school. Good grief. What a collection of (often arrogant) ninnies did I find there! (Presumably, they must have been capable in their med-related and science classes.) In any event, I no longer regarded such as they as the “elite” by any means. Some, in fact, appeared to be mentally dull. But, perhaps, that was appearance only, not the basic person. + Sylvie lol. yes Alfred.:) just look at what most ‘doctors’ can do for us? NOTHING- except SCRIBBLING a drug prescription and i mean it. *can he tell you WHY you’re sick? NO *can he advise WHAT TO DO to get better? NO *yet he makes an obscene amounts of money plus kick backs for each prescription written. (drugs – we are not sick from lack of drugs- most illnesses are nutrition/environment based. It is KEY to understand this so we will finally get that there is NO CHANCE of finding for example ‘cancer cure’… Cancers are a result of bad nutrition/environment. How can A PILL cure that?? Look at stats of when cancers became a plaque. I will leave conclusion about that to you:) * alfred ferguson Yes–all correct information. Here, perhaps, is other ‘food” for thought, since crocodiles have been mentioned. Not only have various facets of our existence evolved over eons; our brains and concordant mental faculties have also undergone evolution. Trace brain evolution back far enough, and we observe that once upon a certain time our brains evolved from what would very much resemble the brain of the crocodile today. Would this illuminate, perhaps, our human species hideous potential if not propensity for sub-human behaviors? Perhaps, actually, such behaviors are merely human–all-too-human: the crocodile or reptile brain resplendent. + Sylvie love your post haha! ….i don’t however consider crocodile behaviours hideous… only our self-preservation instinct -as we are a physically weak species in comparison to them-would concoct such a word- as we know we stand no chance face-to-face with an alligator lol :)))) ps. developing tools/weapons made human race survive.. that’s just a general comment, not specifically for you Alfred. cheers! :)) * mimi57 agree about the high fat diet! we are grain eating animals and should eat less meat and healthy fats from other sources…nuts avacados etc. and eat less processed junk bottom line and watch look at what you are eating…take time to think about what you rre putting in ur body + Mike We are not grain eating animals. Archer Daniels Midland wants you to think otherwise. Do your homework. * orlandojon Moral of the story, time to stop reading about the latest fad foods in the press. Just use common sense and eat natural foods. Nothing that comes in a box, jar or can and you will do fine. * Sylvie Yes you are right. Pro-biotics are very important if you don’t eat the ‘real’ food and one’s gut flora is off balance and/or one developed systemic yeast overgrowth because of that (CANDIDA) then it needs to be addresses. Candida needs to be dealt with first- in its presence cancers and other illnesses begin and flourish… I think the most important thing is to understand HOW OUR BODY WORKS- how it get nutrition, and how it gets affected by lack of it, or eating food-like products and what processed sugars/carbs do to it. If you get that you will then make the right choices. i can help people case by case- each one is completely different and one needs to find out health history, food habits, etc in order to give any particular advice. BUT the point is- if we just go back to BASICS – we will get healthy. There is no doubt about that. That’s all there is too it. cheers :) * Sylvie totally Tammy! It’s ridiculous but you start to get why once the whole money/profits-making by the ‘health’ INDUSTRY becomes apparent. It cant make a dime by addressing bad food habits. Only by selling drugs. If we want to be healthy and not die of cancers etc we need to start opening our eyes, get educated, and start the changes from the ground up. Im not kidding. The status quo- the lies, the denials, the brain washing of the masses for the sake of money- makes me rage. * Sylvie there is more you can do but you’re totally on the right path! awesome! :)) + tammytnt Got suggestions? Can’t do strengthening exercise, not suppose to walk much. I have post polio and exercise destroys my nerves, which will destroy my muscles. That makes it even harder to keep things in check. Any other idea’s, am open to trying things * Joan Meijer And now with Tuna Sushi you have to think about irradiated tuna from the Fukushima accident – since America’s FDA is not testing Pacific Tuna – but reports of highly radioactive tuna showing up have been released by responsible individuals. It’s very much time to take this off your menu. * Eohippus617 What is wrong with the Palo diet and their ilk is that the meat we eat today is nothing like the meat our ancestors ate. Wild buffalo, deer, even mammoth had a much higher percentage of Omega 3 fatty acids and a much lower amount of saturated fat then current domesticated beef, lamb or pork. Same thing when comparing Chicken to any poultry of the past. The other thing we all forget is that the caveman (paleo) had a life expectancy of 40 years tops on average. Now maybe it was not the diet that was the main contributor but I expect the lack of vitamins and fiber in the diet had a significant part in it. So cut down on the red meat and increase your (wild) fish intake. Eat Tuna, salmon and Swordfish in moderation (Mercury). Eat cod, haddock, tilapia etc more often. Increase your use of fresh (ideally raw) nuts and use legumes (peanuts, Beans) as a big source of your carbs and proteins. Eat fresh fruit in moderation and cut out highly processed carbs. I eat only bread that has 4 or more grams of fiber per serving and only once a day. * Sylvie The Omega 6 – cheap seed oils sold to us by food moguls consumed by gazillions gallons are the biggest culprit here that you haven’t mentioned. they are inflammatory and create environment for diseases to develop. So if you eat Omega 3 meat but cook it on Omega 6 oils like Sunflower, Corn, Soy bean and Cotton seed, Peanut oils then no point in that. Butter, coconut oil, lard, palm oil and olive oil (watch burning point of that one as it will turn acidic!) No one says all food has to be eaten raw. I said -do the cooking yourself -that way you know what goes in the food you eat. cheers + Matt Totally disagree with all of you. The best diet for humans is Twinkies, Snickers, French Fries, and anything where high fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient., veggies only when in Fries. Trust me I work for a big food conglomerate, I should know. ;) * Pat Why is soy not on this list? + Helen Tam-Semmens Soy being bad was not based on facts to begin with. Recent scientific studies show that soy actually reduces the risk of breast cancer. o dazyduck Could you provide a ”source” for this statement please? * PJL Snack bars and trail mix can be fine for their intended purpose and contents are balanced. 10 mile hikes, backpacking, trips, x-country skiing and trail biking will burn up those calories you need. * Mike List Because only some of what you eat is metabolized into things you need. Fat is turned to sugar and metabolized just as surely as sugar is. The body must do some extra work to process it, but as long as you don’t eat in excess of what you need, caloriwise, you won’t store it. protein can also be converted to sugar. * bromide1 Try reading the ingredients on the container. Packaged pasta sauce doesn’t have to contain sugar. The further down on the ingredients list, the less the item content in the sauce. Hunts makes several types that list no sugar (or very little) in their mix. Substtitute ground turkey for ground beef to reduce fat and use whole wheat pasta for a healthier spaghetti dinner. Add fresh mushrooms and spice to taste. This won’t eliminate calories, but it should reduce them significantly. It should also reduce the carb loading because of the lack of sugar in the souce. You’ll still get carbs, though, so watch portions carefully if you’re diabetic (like me). + Richard Williams Real red sauce takes about 10 minutes to prepare. Why ANYONE would eat that Bilge water tasting hunts stuff is beyond me * Guest Once a year I get fritters made of Bing cherries from Washington state. YUMMIE! * scesc A balanced diet but not to much of it is the best diet. * suibneg not to mention a steady diet of Obxma and the mass media. * OC I’m surprised about muselii snd the tomato sauce. Dr. Oz just did a segment on Everyday Foods Experts (obstetrician, oncologists, ect.) Won’t Touch”. * mplo One also has to bear in mind, too, that not all fats are bad for you. Some fats, in fact, are very, very beneficial. Avocados and Salmon, for example, contain a great deal of Omega-3 fatty acids, which increase one’s HDL (the good cholesterol) and help prevent heart disease. Avocados are also an excellent food for a person who’s trying to lose weight, because they slow down the glucose uptaker in the body. * Arturo Montenora Our whole society is addicted, strung out, on carbs and sugar. + biophys Sugars are carbs, but not all carbs are sugars * Ry Look into the mercury versus selenium interaction in ocean fish. Pretty interesting. Apparently selenium attaches itself to mercury and makes it in-absorb-able for humans. The plus; you don’t absorb the mercury. The minus; you also don’t absorb the selenium. Decent trade off though. And tuna sushi is sooo delicious. * Common Sense I think the bottom line is eat whatever you want but eat reasonable portions and do a cardio workout for 45 minutes 5 days a week. * CaptainMike1 If you’re concerned about Mercury in your tuna – stay away from the red tuna and order Albacore – white tuna. NOT “Super White” which is not a tuna at all and shouldn’t even be allowed for sale, but Shiro Maguro – Albacore. It tastes better than most red tunas anyways imo. Bluefin used to be the Cadillac of the tuna fisheries, but it’s mostly ocean-ranched and pellet-fed these days – looks great, tastes like cardboard to me. The Albacore used for sushi are the smaller/younger fish that haven’t had the opportunity to accumulate great amounts of mercury in their systems yet. But even with the highest possible mercury loads, one would have to eat a LOT, I mean a BIG FAT LOT of tuna, essentially nothing but tuna, before coming down with mercury poisoning. There are two very scary cases of seafood mercury poisoning of local populations (google it). One on the Faroe Islands where folks used to eat a lot of Whales (mammals, not fish), the other in Japan where local seafood was heavily contaminated with mercury following an industrial mishap. + Anon Not to mention the radiation. o CaptainMike1 you must be talking about the radiation that’s been seeping into the groundwater since WWII at the Hanford Reach in Washington? Or the radiation we unleashed during that war while performing our nuclear tests on the islands in the pacific which finally culminated in our bombing of 2 Japanese cities? These incidents ensured that EVERYTHING we eat these days is radioactive. Yes, your milk & spinach are as radioactive as our tuna. * Mags Kavanaugh Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death- LIVE! Auntie Mame * Dan Lewin Precisely. Most raw veg keeps it nutrients locked away in its cell walls until cooked. + Cinnamon Chestnut i like raw veggies. tastes so much better — lighter and just delicious! if i cook them, it’s microwaved. o StarDustz Sad to tell you that cooking your veggies in the microwave zaps/kills the good nutrients. We can’t win, can we?! # Smart_Tech_Spinner How can you “kill” a nutrient? They are still alive even being picked off the tree weeks ago? @ IEatRawMeat You can kill a car, and it was never alive to begin with! He meant it destroys them and therefor voids the health benefit of said nutrient. @ WingedWolfPsion It doesn’t destroy them anymore than other forms of cooking. @ PDuncan12345 Exactly right. Just another myth being unnecessarily spread around by StarDustz. @ PDuncan12345 Right on! You CAN’T kill a nutrient. They CAN be lost in the water that gets pour off if the food is boiled though. # PDuncan12345 Ad to tell you that no it doesn’t. Where do you people get these weird ideas? BOILING vegetables makes them lose their nutrients in the water. Microwaving preserves them. o Robert W better of steaming them microwave disrupts the water molecule in a bad way i need to test boiling water by stove and microwave and let it cool and water two different plants at same growth stage and see if it matters they were comparing tap water and distilled water saying distilled water is dead but add couple drops trace minerals and should be fine it makes me laugh at the war on drugs and culprits like hfsc get into our food chain it a drug at that point liquid fructose up to 90% also agave necter no good either unless using small amounts let suck the juice out this plant and reduce it down sound no better then converting coca leaves or extracting coffee liver handles it either way right keep things in their natural forms and we wont have any problems # PDuncan12345 Huh? You’re not making any sense. How about using a computer instead of your iPhone, and most of all, USE PUNCTUATION! + Bina Wigand Not all need to be cook. When u cook certain veggies. U kill the nutrients. Some are better raw then others. Like Bell peppers and broccoli. * Dan Lewin Beans, man. Beans. * Tomanydiffering Opinions If you were to follow every “food expert” opinion, you would die of starvation, so my motto is eat, drink and be merry, for you going to die soon anyway, so may as well enjoy life while you can. Ill health only takes off the last years of your life, which are the worst years, so why worry. + anon They don’t have to be the worst years if you are healthy enough to enjoy them. People here are mostly just trying to offer their help. My grandparents are in their 80’s and they still have a lot of fun. Why would you want to die at 50 and miss the chance to say whatever you want and get a free pass when you’re old? I myself want to ride on a rocking horse on wheels that’s attached to a shopping cart, and have someone pull me around while shopping. Oh, I should also have a very long whip. That one’s going on the bucket list. =) * Terry Parker We would still be small bands of nomads trying to find prey and killing each other if you were even remotely correct. Drink good whisky, who wants to live forever? * krocklin 75% of TOTAL cholesterol can be LDL in a healthy person. * Helen Pattskyn I’m tired of seeing “don’t eat fat free yogurt” — what it should really read is “read your labels!” Fage 0 (and several other great fat free yogurts) are a) lower in calorie than regular yogurt (yes, LOWER) and don’t contain sugar at all (unlike flavored yogurt). A cup is 100 calories, 7 grams of carbs (natural to dairy products), 18 grams of protein and ZERO grams of fat. And the ingredients are all “in English” (i.e., nice normal things like, milk and yogurt cultures, not this or that gum.) * JK Humbert I have a big problem…. I drink 12 to 24 cans of 12 oz. Coca Cola PER DAY. I am 5 ft 11 inches and weigh 165 pounds so weight is not my problem. I just realized my sugar levels double to 175 after drinking a few cold ones… Other than that I am completely healthy for a man of 52 years. No high blood pressure, high cholesterol (ratio), or other blood test result abnormalities. I just do not know how to stop my “addiction”. The only illness I have had since childhood and pre-soda days is migraines. The caffeine does help resolve such headaches. The sad thing is that I am a health professional and know the risks but I just can not stop despite many futile attempts to change to water. Anybody else have this problem. “Hi my name is Michael and I am addicted to refined sugars” sounds petty and lame. Thanks * valerie There are no hard and fast rules with health. Some foods are toxic or indigestible raw [like kale]. Others you may be allergic to [like I am to eggs]. Some things are healthy for women but deleterious to men [like soy products]. This is what I found works for me [after 13 years of experimenting] I eat mostly fatty animal proteins and veggies, healthy fats [like olive oil] and some grains, I exercise outdoors for an hour a day, take high quality vitamins, digestive enzymes, probiotics. I also take nootropics like Centrophenoxine, caffeine, and [provigil on occasion] and have stimulating hobbies/work. Doing all of the above has changed my body and my mind dramatically. I used to be severely depressed and had ADHD and unhealthy body composition. I still eat the foods mentioned above sometimes, I drink soda and alcohol a few times a week. As long as I stay under my caloric needs and pair sugar with protein whenever possible I stay slim and healthy. Health is highly personal and gene-dependent. Doctors are too busy treating the symptoms, and dieticians are often caught up in their own fads and personal belief systems. Americans could do four things to improved their health: up their healthy fat intake, sleep more, drink less alcohol, and exercise outdoors. We might, one day, catch up to Europe. * Foxgirl With al due respect to a Vet, I you’ve got the molecule size issue reversed. According to the books “Wheat Belly” (pages 152,153) and “Grain Brain,” it’s the small cholesterol particles that are dangerous, while the large particles are safe (i.e., unless you’re eating wheat, sugar, and the other carbs that spike our blood sugar dangerously: e.g., rice starch, corn starch, potato starch, and tapicoa starch, along with wheat, are the worst offenders). In fact, the books explain how our bodies actually NEED cholesterol (which is why statin drugs–intended to lower cholesterol–are so dangerous!). Please read the aforementioned books. (No, I’m not affiliated and get nothing for saying that.) They’re life-changing. (Look up “Wheat Belly” on Amazon and see check out the thousands of customer reviews–and read the stories of people who gave up the carbs: not only effortless weight loss (I can attest to that–and I didn’t even WANT to lose the weight), but reversal and/or prevention of all manner of ailments and diseases. Giving up these carbs will make you so much healthier! + ArooMadazda I can vouch for what you say. Lay off the wheat and carbs, lose weight, fell better, sleep better. Pretty simple. * Tom Look folks, the best eating plan is the one that works for you and that you’ll stick to. Low fat is what works for me and what I can enjoy. Low carb doesn’t work for me. Was on Atkins for 4-5 weeks. Lost very little weight, felt bad frequently, and never shook the craving for carbs. I can’t give it all up potatoes, bread, pasta, etc. I did have the occasional allowable carbs, but it just didn’t cut it for me. So, again, if that works for you, great, but it doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. It’s like exercise. The best one for you is the one you’ll do. Doesn’t much matter what it is if it burns calories. * freeman27 make your life with walking or cycling everyday either slowly or fast (depend on your ability)..then you will not concern about any calories..although you want to eat 9 to 11 pieces of chicken everyday..and you can enjoy all type of food in the world.. * angleyes I eat everything on this list, but in moderation. I’m 51, in good health, exercise at least 4 to 5 days a week. I watch what I eat 6 days a week. On Sunday, I do not exercise and eat whatever I want. * Hannah Cochran Go vegan, tastes better! Also, makes you feel a ton better. #Earthlings Watch the video Forks over Knives. * K Rowland You are all going to die tomorrow if you keep eating these things. So stop eating anything that tastes good, and make sure you live a long, incredibly boring life. * Laurelishish Nish Yogurts taste really great just on their own w/out any sugar or flavorings added. I buy nonfat plain yogurt, and it’s very refreshing and tasty. If you like tangy flavors, non-fat, unsweetened, unflavored Yogurt with nothing else added to it is the way to go. My dog loves it too, seriously LOVES it. It’s a total dessert for her. * Pat Patterson Sushi obviously doesn’t hurt the Japanese. * sunburnspecial IT’S CARBS– SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. YOU CAN’T GET IT THROUGH PEOPLE’S THICK HEADS THOUGH. WE LISTEN TO WAY TOO MUCH ADVERTISING $$$. * Zforce To the copy editor: When referring to the nutrition content of a food, you say, “healthful”. Healthy means that you are in a good state of health. Healthful means something is good for you. You don’t say amount of calories, you say NUMBER of calories. You use number to define quantifiable items. Amount if for non-quantifiable quantities. For example, you say number of calories, but amount of fat. + Cherry You do not say “you say.” It invokes an empty imperative, but an empty imperative that has a sense of authority. It makes it difficult to understand that these language rules are arbitrary, constantly open to change, and self-reinforcing (through use we come to take them as the only acceptable means of expression). Why you or some special board or committee has authority over proper use of language, and then think everyone else will blindly follow as you issue dictates about others’ use, is beyond me. At most you can say, that these language police have sampled wide use, suggested ways to remove inconsistent use, made suggestions to force different uses into a logical system . . . all well and good. But to turn around and speak in a problematic way (e.g., closing off of best understanding through emotional imperatives of authority), means that these people should have never proliferated. Lastly, everything is quantifiable, most definitely “fat.” Fat here is not being used descriptively, “you look fat.” * southmpls lowering intake of carbohydrates (white flour, white bread, white sugar, white pasta) is the key for women. we convert carbos to fat much faster than men do. * HighCholesterol Have a family history of high cholesterol. My father died of his 7th heart attack at 46. His farther died the day before him. My little brother has 4 stents in him. Im 44 going on 45. Just transferred to a new doctor that took me off all my meds, Lipitor included and put me on a high protein low carb no sugar no grain no dairy diet :-) We will see what the results are at my next testing. Feel better though I must say. * EatWellNotDiet Paleo is not about eating everything edible raw. The flaw with Paleo is the version where people believe they should only eat what hunters and gatherers did originally. That a huge range in variety when geographical differences are accounted for. The grass fed thing is key however, the biggest and most successful concept of Paleo is just removing the processed foods and focusing on grass fed/organic (as needed) and removing grains from our diet among various other things that tend to be hard for us to digest as well as insanely caloric dense. + PDuncan12345 Are you people smoking something? Remove GRAINS from our diet? Really? No more Oatmeal, no brown rice, no whole wheat cereals, or corn (that has recently been found to have serious health BENEFITS. Not corn syrup… CORN). I think there may actually be something wrong with you. One post here stated, “Look how people used to eat,” I believe referring to those who were adults in the 1950s and 60s since that’s when butter was great, eggs were good for you, and milk was essential in building strong bones and helping kids grow. Those are the people today who are in their 80s and 90s! Those are the people too though who ate half as MUCH as people do now, and they WALKED everywhere. There is no fad diet, no forbidden food, no magic formula that equals the best diet for a person except the one that is varied, small-portioned, and low on salt and sugar. Please stop touting fad diets that were only “invented” so people could make money off of them. Paleo, South Beach, Mediterranean, or whatever. You will spend your entire lives in grocery stores and farmers markets reading, weighing, checking, and deciding, and before you know it, it’ll all be over. o SandyTodd I’ve removed grains/carbs from my diet and they are right. My blood sugar improved within days. I felt better. Ultimately, I can’t afford to eat that way and it gets old. * Peter Feldmann The ‘Muesli” mentioned here and marketed in the USA is a far cry from the original, created by Dr. Bircher-Benner at his clinic on the Sonenberg above the city of Zürich in the 1920s. The clinic, basically a fat farm for wealthy celebrities, was located two blocks from my childhood home. The good doctor believed in eating only raw foodstuffs (including raw meat, such as steak Tartare BTW), sleeping on spartan cots, cold water bathing, exercise, etc. His Muesli (Swiss-German word for mixture) was formulated fresh ever morning from shredded apples, grated hazelnuts or almonds, rolled oats soaked in water for 15 min., and a little lemon juice and honey. Fresh or dried fruit was added as available, and it was served with whole, raw, milk. My mother learned the recipe from Dr. Benner and fixed it often for us. Truly delicious and very healthy (she was 94 when she died). Bircher Muesli, ask for it by name! (My American friends now know it as “Beer Commercials”) :-) + John Harvey Kellogg Sounds like the movie “Road To Wellville”. * borninmombasa I just eat what Michelle tells me to eat. * BioPhys There is a great amount of confusion and mis-understanding in all of these posts. I am a physician and biochemist, so let us get it straight. There is only one kind of Cholesterol, its proper name is 2,15-dimethyl-14-(1,5-dimethylhexyl)tetracyclo[8.7.0.02,7.011,15]he ptacos-7-en-5-ol. Cholesterol made in the body, mostly in the liver, intestine wall, some is eaten. Cholesterol is a major component of every cell membrane in the body, as well as other structures. There is no “Good” or “Bad” Cholesterol. Cholesterol is mostly transported in the body bound to proteins. Most protein bound cholesterol that leaves the liver is bound to low density protein (LDL) and the complex is known as Low density lipoprotein. The high density Lipoprotein is mostly responsible for transporting cholesterol to the liver. None of these are “Good” or “Bad”, both are essential for life. BUT high levels of LDL in the blood reflect a large amount of cholesterol going to cells, and low levels of HDL reflect less transport back to the liver. Both are associated with build up of plaque in artery walls that lead to heart attacks, strokes and loss of circulation especially in legs and kidneys. “Apolipoprotein a” LP(a) is a component of LDL, along with , which might be responsible for the buildup of cholesterol in artery wall plaque.There are various types which are genetically determined, lighter forms are thought to be more dangerous that heavier forms. There is also confusion about what is fat. Fat ONLY occurs in animals. Fats include cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid found in nerves and brain. Fats are a subset of a big group of water insoluble compounds called Lipids, which include fatty acids. Not all lipids are fat, but all fats are lipids. All sugars are carbohydrates, but not all carbohydrates are sugars. The body uses mainly the sugars glucose, ribose and deoxyribose, and also converts glucose to Fructose on the way to producing other molecules, some of these processes release energy. Sucrose is stores in the body as starch, mostly in Liver and Muscle. High levels of sucrose in the blood cause release of the hormone Insulin, and if the sucrose is not immediately used up, the balance is pushed by Insulin into storage cells in a complex series of chemical reactions which convert sucrose to fat (this is an over simplification). The faster the rise in blood glucose, the faster the Insulin response to keep blood sugar levels in a tight range. Eating refined sugars like glucose and Sucrose is dangerous, because they are rapidly absorbed from the intestine into the blood, causing a spike in Insulin levels. Complex “carbs” need to be broken into simple sugars before they can be absorbed from the intestine into the blood, delaying the Insulin rise. Fructose is worse, because it causes the same Insulin spike as Glucose, but unlike blood glucose levels which turn off the hungry signal to the brain when levels rise, fructose does not. This is used by unscrupulous processed food makers to eat more of their product, since it does not signal “I am not hungry any more” to the brain. This is a gross oversimplification, but I hope that it dispels all the myths and mis-information * BioPhys correction, Sugar is stored a glycogen in animals, starch in plants * Biophys You are correct. The myth is a reversal of the truth, If you have kidney failure, then you need a low protein diet. This is because failing kidneys will not be able to excrete enough of the toxic byproducts that the body makes when it breaks down proteins. High protein diet will not cause the kidney failure. * biophys Your grandfather was truly blessed, but there are 7.5 billion people on the planet, and one fortunate man (0.00000013%) is not significant when assessing risk. * Val Holladay JUST EAT IT!! I am 75 years old, drink 4 high fructose Pepsis a day along with potato chips, donuts, potatoes, steak, milk, vegetables, bacon,(oh yeah, lots of bacon) literally, any thing I want. I have never weighed more than 145#. I take no prescription drugs and have no illness except for the inevitable cold. It is very probable that this diet may kill me in another 10-15 years but I will not have spent a miserable life eating tofu and rice cakes. I irks me to no end how what is good for you one year will kill you the next and what will kill you today will give you eternal youth tomorrow. Why the hell can’t ‘experts’ make up their minds? + Drone Henley Yes! Anecdotal evidence trumps science every time! Look at George Burns. One guy lived to 100 or whatever and smoked the whole time. Ergo, SMOKING IS NOT BAD FOR YOU! * Brian Fruits, vegies, nuts, grains seeds, and plain greek yogurt (w/ live/active cultures). Nothing cooked above 109 degrees F, and no foods w/ psuedo estrogens (like soy). Haven’t been sick in over 13 years besides occasional airborn allergies, was about 30 lbs underweight, w/o changing my fitness habits I am now in the normal range for active adults and show no signs of the type I diabetes I was diagnosed with when I was 2 and haven’t taken an insulin shot in 12 years or a glucose tablet in 10. I don’t count calories, pay attention to fat content of any kind, and if I’m a guest at someone’s house I just eat what they serve (meats, confections, pastries, breads, etc). * Gemma Thank you! I try to point that out all the time. There is no indigenous vegan diet on the planet. * StarDustz Great advice Michael, appreciate it. Only thing I’d say differently is to skip “cow’s milk” altogether and, instead go for Coconut or Almond Milk, GMO of course. * Alexander I was glad to see this post- I always found it strange that so many people are of the opinion that our digestive tracts most closely resemble that of an herbivores.But for the matter of the eyes that face forward, I think that evolved in primates because of our need to have depth perception to swing between branches, not to hunt animals (not that primates never hunt other animals, which they do). * DChrls Like most things in life, moderation is the way to go. Also exercise, stretch and get outside. Unless you live in a big city. In that instance, accept that you live in a place that the air will probably do more harm than a little snack eating. That you are more likely to be attacked by a criminal and disease will spread faster where you live too. So if you are one of those people who feel you are more intelligent than those who live in the “flyover states” or heaven forbid ” The South”. Remember these things about where you live and PLEASE stay where you are. Accept the environment the you and politicians you voted for have made for you. Have the decency to not move to areas who have got it right. If you do, observe how the people live where you moved to and don’t repeat the same acts that shaped the last place you lived. That is all and have a blessed day. :D P.S. if you can’t handle a little humor, like this post was intended to be. Learn to lighten up and don’t take yourself so seriously. You’ll probably live longer. * JaiGuru The one and ONLY good diet is the one that includes a balanced protion of all three macro nutrients. There is no substitution. + Trillstar Duh. + jdege This is wrong on two levels. First, there is no dietary requirement for carbohydrates, so to say they must be part of the balance is simply wrong. Second, there are huge differences between the types of fats, so to say that you need some portion of your diet to be fats, without discussing what kinds of fats, is dangerously ignorant. o Robert W i dont know what to believe anymore 0/50/50 0/25/75 we need glucose for our brains to function ketosis isn’t a good way to go thru life is it it not good for diabetics is it why should it be good us helathy people maybe cleaning purge once in awhile keep your body alkaline for the most part 7.5+ o PDuncan12345 You know what’s ignorant? Discussing issues you know very little about. Ever study Nutrition in college? I did. And there is no fad diet that is worthy of this discussion. ALL of them leave out vital foods and nutrients in the name of sales. They pander to people who can’t think for themselves and who MUST watch Dr. Oz each day in order to survive. And the latest and greatest food discovery is also just to keep people watching because sooner or later it ALWAYS comes down to the exact same thing: a varied diet, smaller portions with little salt and sugar, along with normal exercise like walking IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS. Every time you read something about the latest and greatest food fad, it turns out later not to be true. The Atkins Diet? Didn’t Atkins die at a relatively young age? You cannot live on protein alone! The Paleo diet where you only eat “grass-fed” meat. Come on! If THAT isn’t a fad diet, nothing is. Remember when eggs were terrible for us? Now they’re great. Remember when margarine was going to save us from heart attacks? Now it CAUSES them! And now fruit is bad for us!!! That’s where fructose comes from you know. Did you know apples contain cyanide? And Almonds contain arsenic? You will drive yourselves stark-raving mad if you don’t put down all the idiotic claims people come up with every single day, and just… eat. Eat SMALL amounts of VARIED foods, and walk. That’s my diet book. It won’t make me any money though since there isn’t any kind of fantastic, stupendous, miraculous, magical, or sensational component of it. I hope MyDiet actually posts this. + Robert W 80/10/10 or i like to promote 65/25/10 also 75/15/10 for lower fat diets eliminating fat totally isn;t good all food should have three macro nutrients , carbs protein and fat even brocooli has like .5 per cup but foods like tofu 0 so we need to incorpersate some within the meal eating protein laden food like rabbit can harm ya if thats all ya eat some fancy name i forgot because it so lean we meant to eat our food whole i think up to what fits in our mouths isolating parts from the animal makes us deficent i think protein shouldn’t be more then 12.5% diet we have 32 teeth right out of those 4 are for meat eating the way i look at it for us omnivoire’s we aren’t true carnivores nor true grass eaters either. + PDuncan12345 That’s what I said, only in a few more words :o) * Francisco Castro Anyone with a basic high school nutrition class education should be able to surmise all of these things. They were trying a little too hard to make these really broad and generalized “facts” fit into this “7 healthy foods that turned out to be unhealthy” topic. Yes, for the most part they have the right idea and direction but it all comes down to moderation. There are too many sensationalized opinions embedded within these 7 foods that it’s hard to take it seriously when half of it holds validity while the other half completely negates the purpose and value of a balanced diet. (That is of course, assuming everyone needs the EXACT same diet which is completely ludicrous.) A majority of our American population just need to start consistently eating better rather than diving into the deep end of extreme diets. Gradually build yourself an improving habit of well balanced foods, exercise, rest and a healthy sex life and your life will transform. All of these things are intertwined and will balance out if you make the intention for it. The road to a great body and mind is exactly that, a road. Milestones are the greatest to help affirm that journey. * BW You are somewhat incorrect about the life expectancy of cavemen. The life expectancy was quite low, but that was mainly due to the high infant mortality rates, if you lived beyond childhood, the life expectancy was much much higher than 30. and with no hospitals, it was easy to die of an infection from an injury(probably very common), doesn’t mean their diets were causing them problems. There are still a few cultures around the world who eat this way (plenty of protein and fat, no grains), and guess what? they have almost zero incidence of heart disease and diabeties and most other chronic disease. New research is showing that many types of fats are GOOD for you…like “essential” fatty acids like omega 3, and even saturated fat is now being shown to actually be healthy(kinda like eggs) There is nothing in grains that you can’t get in much greater abundance by eating something else instead. You’d be 100 times better off replacing your grains with an equal amount of healthy veg or meat. Grains are “filler” food, meant to take up max. volume for min. price, they have very little in the way of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, micro-nutrients etc. they do have those things, but in very minimal quantities compared to equal calories of veg or meat. So it’s very hard to make any kind of case that a food so low in overall nutrition is somehow good for you to eat in any kind of substantial quantities. Concentrated and highly processed grain oil specifically is what promotes heart disease, notice that decades ago the usda started recommending people replace their lard with vegetable oil, their butter with margarine…and what happened? heart disease went exponential, those dietary guidelines made the situation far worse, not better. America has gotten more unhealthy since we started on this high carb diet that the usda recommends. Do yourself a favor and replace the grains with something more nutrient dense. * Trillstar 13,000 years is nothing, compared to the history of humanity. It’s no surprise we haven’t evolved to properly process these “foods” we grow for ourselves. * moderate brunei mercury toxicity eh? oishikatta maguro! * dupkaman Fat is two to three times higher in calories than protein or carbohydrates. Eat a pound of fat and you will be much heavier than if you ate a pound of carbohydrate or protein. That’s just the way it is……look it up. + Raven Storm Really? Then explain the success of the Adkins, South beach and paleo diets?! That diet not count calories and allows the dieter to eat fat and proteins. The fact that “calorie suppression diet” work because you are removing large quantities of food and inducing starvation. The same medical industry professionals who advocated hi carb low fat are the same ones who told you to count calories. The fact is that a calorie is a unit of energy and no proof that our bodies know how to “count”. Scientists applied calories to food but still don’t know what that means to the body’s metabolism function. Yes it is true there are 9 calories in fat compared to 4 in both protein and carb, which is the basis for the idiotic hi carb low fat diet, but it is also known that the body cannot digest fats and it converts carbs to fat for the body to store. So what people have been told,you included obviously for the last 40 years has been counter productive and the skyrocketing obesity rates are the telltale signs of this failure. Yet ironically during the same time our supermarkets have gotten larger in the “pantry” food area…..carbs. who is benefitting? The same food corporations that sponsored you “fat makes you fat, buy our fat free food instead” campaigns. Fat free foods need sugar and carbs to replace the flavors taking the fat out removes. Perhaps instead of telling me that’s just the way it is you should shut up and ask yourself where has listening to these ideas of hi carb diets and counting calories has gotten our nation in the last 40 years. My friend is currently on the Adkins diet and in 1 1/2 months is down over 30 lbs. She is counting carbs not calories. + Raven Storm Your body doesn’t count calories and it also can’t digest fat. What your body does do is convert what you eat into fuel, starting with the easiest form. Your body runs on sugar and carbs and that is what sugars are. Your body burns that, and stores that. If it has to work harder to break down a food into a sugar like protein, it will not be able to store as much. Look it up, because THAT is the way it actually is. It’s called a glycemic index, you might not have heard of it while you were thinking that a pound can weigh more than a pound simply by what it’s made of. * John Moser Breakfast comes after a long period of energy-consuming sleep in which the body repairs muscles and joints, consolidates memory (intensive), and consumes sugar (from stored glycogen) to produce ATP. The demand for energy is high at this point; 500kcal is quite low, and is especially good when brought as a balance of sugar, fat, and protein. I find normal breakfasts–pancakes, french toast, fried potatoes–provide too much caloric intake at around 1000+ kcal in the form of bread and sugar (syrup!), and had switched to eggs and meats and mushrooms fried in butter and lard as my primary breakfast intake. There is no documented increase in birth defects or any documented harm from mercury in fish. The FDA standards are set specifically for pregnant women, and are arbitrary: they’re set to 1/10 of what was arbitrarily deemed to be potentially toxic, although no evidence of toxicity has ever been found. They just guess it’s probably toxic because it contains an amount of mercury known to be toxic which, strangely enough, has failed to show to actually be toxic for unknown reasons. Because they don’t know why it appears to not produce toxic effects, and because they haven’t established hard-line evidence showing particularly a lack of toxicity, they suggest caution. Energy bars and trail mixes should have a high amount of fat and sugar content, with a modest amount of protein and a lot of micronutrients. You eat these when you are burning energy; they need to immediately supply usable sugar, as well as fat source for slow-burn energy, and protein and micronutrients which the body consumes rapidly under load. Often I intake straight sugar (100g directly) and water with magnesium, sodium, potassium, manganese, and calcium ions; energy bars are better. * Smart_Tech_Spinner > there aren’t any studies that prove fats make you “fat” Why do a million doctors tell you otherwise? + Raven Storm Because doctors are taught very little in the way of nutrition in med school, and thankfully that is slowly changing. No sooner do they put carbs at the foundation of the ‘food pyramid’ in the 70’s do obesity rates rise. In the meantime, they demonized any food that had ‘fat’ in it. The “it’s fat, so you’re fat” logic….really isn’t rooted in logic. Doctors are also turning away in droves from this fat makes you fat ‘wisdom’ because they are learning that it is incorrect. * ArooMadazda cholesterol lowering drugs are also associated with an increased risk of dementia. * Gstrine While grass fed animals do produce a healthier, more nutrient dense food source, its not THAT big of a deal if you eat conventionally raised meat. The amount of fat actually in the meat (Omega 6) isn’t at a dangerous level, and you can just supplement with fish oil so your omega 3/6 ratios are in line. Yes, there will be more harmful substances in the meat but that is mostly in the fat, which can be cut off. Telling people you MUST eat grassfed animals for paleo/primal eating to be healthy is just wrong and will turn away many people who would otherwise be able to afford it. Just eat leaner cuts of meat and wild caught fish (canned wild caught fish is extremely cheap). In general, removing all of the processed foods, grains, legumes, and LOWFAT dairy WILL make you much healthier than those eating the SAD (standard american diet). You will also feel like a new person, this is coming from experience. If you’re interested in the paleo/primal lifestyle check out marks daily apple .com … it’ll change your life. + JBart @Gstrine – I don’t agree on the balancing your omega-6 with omega-3. Balance doesn’t help your body deal with too much of a bad thing. The majority of your protein and fat should come from naturally fed animals. Also, most people eat only the lean cuts of meat and this is a mistake as well. Our bodies are designed to eat the whole animal; fat, skin, sinew, organs, etc. You don’t get essential nutrients like glycine from eating muscle meat. * Patrick “Eel” O’Brian removed. * LindaL This list keep repeating the BS that fats and particularly saturated fats are bad. Newer studies show this associated is incorrect. Watch out for the carbs (particularly processed) and your blood sugar wont rise as high, thus your body will produce less insulin and then be less likely to store fat instead use it to fuel your cells. * Ron Couples In addition to the mercury problem, Pacific salmon may soon contain material from the Fukushima Daiichi radioactive plume heading toward the west coast . * Greg Schlosser What you should and should not eat: Eat a variety of animal fats and protiens throughout the week for lots of good cholesterol. Cholesterol supports good brain health. Eat eggs every day, steel cut oats, natural sweetners (raw honey, raw sugar, pure maple syrup), always add butter to steamed vegetables, variety of fruits. Saturated Fat enables digestion of nutrients from vegetables and fruits, so don’t be afraid of saturated fat. Consume a variety of unsalted, unsweetened raw nuts throughout the week. Do not ever eat white flour, deep fried food, canola, soybean oil, vegetable oil, margrine, cereal, white rice, white sugar, artificial sweetners, corn syrup, dextrose, sucralose or any food that has any of the previous mentioned garbage. Never eat boxed dinners and seriously…avoid boxed cereal. If you love cereal, then cook steel cut oats with butter and pure maple syrup for sweetness. * Bccamrtn I eat super low fat, extremely high carb and high fructose vegan diet and consume over 2000 calories a day. I work out everyday for about an hour. I limit my sodium intake to 500 mg. per day and eat an all natural plant based diet. I weigh 115 pounds and I’m 5’4. My weight never fluctuates and I feel amazing. High fat low carb diets do not work long term and they suck! + mark98115 Add some avocados to your diet. They are high in fat, but it is very good plant fat. Yummy too. * mike932 I used to think that way. Now my goal is the maximize the number of my HEALTHY years on this earth. Would you rather be healthy for 30 years or 70 years? * Walt Wagner Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease1,2,3,4,5 Patty W Siri-Tarino, Qi Sun, Frank B Hu, and Ronald M Krauss +Author Affiliations 1From the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland CA (PWS-TRMK)the Departments of Nutrition (QSFBH)Epidemiology (FBH) Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA. +Author Notes ↵2 PWS-T and QS contributed equally to this work. ↵3 The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the National Center for Research Resources (http://www.ncrr.nih.gov) or the National Institutes of Health. ↵4 Supported by the National Dairy Council (PWS-T and RMK) and made possible by grant UL1 RR024131-01 from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research (PWS-T and RMK). QS was supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Unilever Corporate Research. FBH was supported by NIH grant HL60712. ↵5 Address correspondence to RM Krauss, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Oakland, CA 94609. E-mail: rkrauss@chori.org. Abstract Background: A reduction in dietary saturated fat has generally been thought to improve cardiovascular health. Objective: The objective of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence related to the association of dietary saturated fat with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and cardiovascular disease (CVD; CHD inclusive of stroke) in prospective epidemiologic studies. Design: Twenty-one studies identified by searching MEDLINE and EMBASE databases and secondary referencing qualified for inclusion in this study. A random-effects model was used to derive composite relative risk estimates for CHD, stroke, and CVD. Results: During 5–23 y of follow-up of 347,747 subjects, 11,006 developed CHD or stroke. Intake of saturated fat was not associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD. The pooled relative risk estimates that compared extreme quantiles of saturated fat intake were 1.07 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.19; P = 0.22) for CHD, 0.81 (95% CI: 0.62, 1.05; P= 0.11) for stroke, and 1.00 (95% CI: 0.89, 1.11; P = 0.95) for CVD. Consideration of age, sex, and study quality did not change the results. Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat. * Jase the amount of sushi you would have to eat to be poisoned by mercury is a ridiculous amount. some of these are nonsense. its not like people are out eating these foods all day everyday. * Christopher Pennington IIFYM: “empty calories” is an anitquated term these days. A calorie from a cupcake or a banana is the same to your body. There is no evidence to the contrary. * Sam Government hogwash * Buttercurl Did this article fall through a worm hole from 1982? * Jeff The section on mercury in tuna is very inaccurate. Please read http://www.greenpasture.org/fermented-cod-liver-oil-butter-oil-vita min-d-vitamin-a/mercury-myths/ and get your facts strait. * drsebby the sushi/tuna thing is complete garbage….the FDA sets the ‘tolerance level’ to 500% of what it actually is just as a safeguard!!! Go to their site and read it for yourself! Also, the limitations assume…3 portions per week (or whatever)…EVERY week, for your entire f-ing life!! There’s more mercury in a coca-cola than in a sushi dinner – stop the fear mongering …READ, people…just research honestly. + mark98115 Problem with Coca Cola isn’t mercury. It’s the blasted corn syrup. My rule number one – if t has corn syrup, it is not going down my pie hole. * phillyfanatic Well eggs were bad, coffee was bad, alcohol was bad. Perhaps grandma’s view that all things in moderation was not wrong. I try to eat right but once in a while have eggs, salad dressing , even fried chicken without the fried skin. Hmmm. I note that most young people speak and act like M. Bloomberg on health foods but still smoke whether it is weed or cigs. Hmm. Moderation and common sense should suffice but with so many Low Info voters on politics, rel, cultur. and health things out there, education should be at least put out there and choices have to be made. Unless of course, one is a progressive which limits choices. You know, freedom??? Oh and I am 75, go to the gym and have bad DNA in my parental and family backgrounds. I do take HBP pills but that is it. Moderation. * LlarryLLama “may develop systems”..don’t you mean symptoms?Not only is this article absurd in it’s quantity, but it’s quality as well. * Rick Baumann The references you make to mercury in tuna is almost totally bogus. Most of the bad publicity and “studies” about mercury content were funded by the meat, pork and poultry lobbies with the intent of reducing seafood menu shares in the nation’s restaurants. I have owned a gourmet seafood market and distributorship for decades – and have been privy to many seminars and classes on food safety etc. A typical sushi platter may contain an ounce of tuna or less. The implication that there is a higher mercury content in tuna sold at restaurants is absurd – and completely unfounded by unbiased studies. That statement is also extremely void of any logic whatsoever. I sell the same tuna to restaurants that I sell in my store! * Tom King Fish is fine to eat (even tuna). Just ignore the TV cooking shows and remove the skin BEFORE cooking. Mercury levels will drop 70% or more. The mercury alarm comes from the way the government tests the fish. They take the whole fish (skin, bones, guts, et al.) and grind it into a paste for analysis. A test was done with lake trout from Lake Ontario a few years ago- the standard tests showed levels of mercury that would limit someone to one serving a week. Testing fillets (skin, bones & guts removed) the mercury levels dropped almost 90%. That’s because fish build up mercury in their skin & scales, not their flesh. * CANDYF77 . Let me tell you the truth. Unsaturated fats are what a person what’s in order to lose weight and to increase energy. It is more effective as a source of energy with its 9 calories/gram vs the 4 calories/gram in protein and 4 calories/gram in carbs. And if you add exercise in your diet, the carbs you will sweat out! And not only did I lose weight & gain energy but also all of my blood test were excellent!!! * Ghenghis john If you eat any of those foods, even once, you will surely die. It is a proven fact. * NorthboroughDan Processed “health foods” are not so great? Shocking. Never trust Industrial Food. And go light on the tuna. Check. * HowardLane Y’all are so lucky to have the ability to pick & choose your diets. I’m lactose intolerant, allergic to wheat ( not gluten ), allergic to pepper & sugar raises my blood pressure. You cannot imagine how many times I just stand in the kitchen scratching my head. + http://www.hookedonhealth.co Hooked on Health Sounds like you need to go paleo. There are lots of blogs with great recipes. Just google it. * Rhett J D. Fats and proteins is what we really need being lied to about the other shit for years, cholesterol is not affected by fats its by sugar that spikes it. * Steven Bilbo ummm,,,, so you all fallow this????? * Steven Bilbo show me a 100 year old vegan or vegitarian rofl * Erohiel Just because yogurt contains lots of sugar does NOT make it bad for you. Not EVERYONE consumes too much sugar. Sugar, like most things, is not inherently bad for you. Dairy is extremely good for you, whether it contains lots of sugar or lots of fat. And an ENERGY bar is for ENERGY. You can’t get ENERGY without calories. If you’re trying to reduce your calorie intake, anyone with a brain should know not to eat things that are supposed to increase energy only. The idea is a BALANCE not ‘avoid this ingredient like the plague’, and then everything comes down to what an individual needs. We need to get away from all this horrible misinformation like these articles. * tammytnt Like your dog * thisfoodcultureisshit because energy bars are “small”, people will feel hungry soon after eating them. Is that really how you think food works? * Vulcanlogix This article is dumber than even the average Yahoo article, and that isn’t easy. Anybody who knows anything at all about nutrition wouldn’t think that any of these “food” items, except for the yogurt, is healthy or nutritious. As for no/low fat plain yogurt, taste isn’t the issue as much as texture – watery with soft clots. Switching to fat free greek yogurt is a major improvement in that regard. Surprisingly, Walmart’s Great Value brand is, IMHO, one of the better brands available because it isn’t nearly as sour as everything else I’ve tried, has a thick, smooth texture, and it tastes a bit like cream cheese. The common denominator with these products is that they’re manufactured. If you really want to sharply reduce your intake of bad things such as chemicals, hormones, allergens, refined sugar, sodium and anything else on your personal list, then don’t eat manufacured food, and stay out of restaurants. Make things yourself from whole, fresh ingredients, organic when available. Wash fruits and vegetables, even locally grown and organic. And do your own research. Most of the so-called studies and the conclusions drawn from them are irresponsible, poorly thought out bullshirt, as is obvious when they reverse themselves weekly. * John L. Lee 55 years ago I grew up dining on fast food on the weekends, which was not as toxic as today’s McCrap! There were NO chain fast food places in those years. I’m 71 now and still like a little junk burger now and then, but do not make a steady diet of it. As a kid, I used to go to a place in Berkeley called Bobo’s; you could get 10 burgers or 10 milkshakes for $1 when they had a sale. Otherwise everything was normally 15 cents each. You could feed a car full of hungry teenagers for $3-$4 and have enough left over for 1/2 tank of gas We called them Ratburgers, but they did the trick! By the way Gas was 18 cents a gallon when on sale at Simas Bros. * http://enria.org/ Zee Flynn Energy bars, trail mix, etc. are all fine. The problem is most “dieters” wash them down with soda and eat mountains of it or other items and claim the “diet” food doesn’t work. Chew each bite 100 times, eat to 80% full and no food after 7 pm and you’ll lose all the weight that is unhealthy in short order. Only in America are portions “super sized”, along with the people. See a connection here? * tevra Ever hear of moderation? no food is healthy or unhealthy in and of itself. take and imbibe all things in moderation and you will be fine. and most important don’t pay much attention to articles from the internet * josephz2va The protein bars vary on who is marketing it. Quest Cravings / Quest Bars I buy from my gym contain almost zero sugar. * Ronnie S Houser A majority of this list is complete BS… It comes down to portion size and knowing what not to eat at certain times. Everyone’s body is different. * stangmfl There is so much nebulous ambiguity in all these lists, no wonder even if one is REALLY trying to lose weight, after reading a few of these ,from different studies, you can explode from frustration. One that always is imbedded somewhere in the info. is diet sodas. No empirical evidence for it contributing to weight gain, or stopping weight loss, always that shaky ‘it may cause you to want more’. I know how I lost and gained weight, and everyone’s story and remedy is valid if it works/worked for them. * WakeForestYankee Positive net calories = weight gain; negative net calories = weight loss. It’s no more complex than that. * ModernCaveFamily Per Mark S. everything you eat should be edible raw means: Don’t eat food that MUST be cooked to be consumed (i.e you can not eat uncooked wheat, rice, barley) it is just a metric of judging what you “should ” eat. beets are edible raw, but we prefer to eat them roasted therefore beets are “Paleo approved” Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw but we like them cooked-sweet potatoes = “paleo approved” The rule I follow is, if it is food we eat it, if it is a food like product we don’t. We eat a lot of vegetable (cooked and raw) We don’t eat food product bread, pasta, fruit gummy snacks, candy, frozen things that come in boxes, frozen Chinese, or Mexican dinners, lasagna, pizza. + WingedWolfPsion Yes, you’ve repeated the big flaw I was talking about – the idea that everything should be edible when raw. That’s not how our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, and it’s not how the species that came before them ate, either. There have always been some foods in the human diet that were toxic or unpalatable when raw, but edible when cooked. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with those foods. Paleolithic peoples would have, and likely did, cook and eat them. List of foods toxic when raw: Cashews Bitter almonds Kidney beans Lima beans Soybean Elderberries Cassava guelder rose fruit Unpalatable raw: Plantain quince crab apple some cherries sloe The list goes on. Just a few examples, here. + PDuncan12345 Oh my god, here we go again. How is rice, or wheat, or barley not food but only “food like”? And pasta isn’t food either? Will you eat a cow… that has been FED grain? I bet you do. You poor poor family. Never a blueberry pancake, never an English muffin. No Cheerios, no turkey spinach lasagna. No tuna sandwiches, no garlic bread. Not a corn dog in the house. Or are frankfurters food? They’re not a grain, they can be cooked but don’t have to be, and they incorporate every part of the animal they’re made from. I’ll bet you’d eat a wiener but you won’t eat a pizza… even though pizzas have been proven to be extremely nutritious. The total and utter brainwashing that goes on in the diet industry just astounds me. For the record, when you eat a piece of meat, you also eat whatever that animal eats!!! * http://gigieatscelebrities.com/ GiGi Eats Celebrities I could not agree MORE with this list!!!!! * disqus_N4ylfpodZI The best way to make popcorn is to put a couple of handfuls of organic popcorn in a brown paper bag and put it in the microwave for about three minutes. I add a little butter (not margarine) and sea salt and it’s better than any of the prepackaged crap they sell and a lot cheaper. * paul koester Organic natural foods . Raw and unprocessed whenever posable Plenty of water and sleep. And 30 minutes a day banging the heavy bag ! * Keith B. Rosenberg And why are all of those unhealthy things added to so-called “healthy” food? Because so much of the healthy food is more or less inedible all by itself. Rolled oats are a lot like cardboard before making them onto oatmeal and cookies. * Robert W so butane and propane are ok octane heptane might as well use alcohol then seem more food grade * Robert W i think we need to add mushrooms back into our diet that monotonous ubiquitous white button mushroom seems unnatural doesn’t it + spunkysmum Gross. * JOHN JONES Regardless, anything in EXCESS IS BAD FOR YOU. No matter what they say. You too much..you’ll gain. * SandyTodd Fat, per serving, has more calories. I can eat a cup of Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream, 430 calories. I can eat a cup of Umpqua Nonfat Frozen Yogurt, which is very creamy and tasty, 164 calories. The fat content matters. I’ll use my fat to butter an English muffin for breakfast. * Manuel Uribe Eat like Jack LaLanne, do a little exercise, and you’ll be fine. The rest of everything else here is just noise. 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Here are some foods that every woman must include in her diet... Flax seeds IFRAME: adshowbtm Have flax seeds daily for overall good health. They are a good source of Omega-3 fatty acids and are known to reduce the risk of heart disease and breast cancer. They also have anti-inflammatory properties that prevent arthritis, apart from digestive properties which help ease irritable bowel syndrome. Salmon Not only is salmon rich in iron, which is usually lacking in women, but it is also full of omega-3 fatty acids, known to improve your mood. Experts say that omega-3 helps treat depression and prevent mood swings. Cranberries Certain studies over the years have found a link between eating cranberries and how it reduces the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. Also, they have the ability to prevent and cure urinary tract infections. Have a glass of cranberry juice every other day. Spinach While this might not be a much-loved food, spinach is packed with a host of vitamins, minerals and high amounts of magnesium. And magnesium is known to help reduce the physical symptoms of PMS like swelling, breast tenderness, bloating and weight gain. Walnuts Experts say that walnuts have omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and phytosterols — all important in reducing the risk of breast cancer. The high omega-3 content also helps bone health, arthritis and depression. Walnuts also comprise nutrients like calcium, magnesium and folic acid. Oats Oats are bursting with health-boosting nutrients, great for female health. They keep your heart healthy, are great for digestion, keep blood pressure levels in check and also contain vitamin B6, which helps prevent PMS and mood swings. Another component — folic acid — prevents birth defects in babies and is essential for women during and after pregnancy. Milk Calcium deficiency is one of the major health concerns that affects women worldwide. Milk is an absolute must for women at any age. A great source of calcium, milk, when combined with vitamin D, is one of the best ways to keep osteoporosis at bay. Milk is also helpful in preventing symptoms of the dreaded PMS. Tomatoes A carotenoid that is essential for good health is lycopene, which is a pigment found in tomatoes. And several studies have said that lycopene can help prevent breast cancer. Apart from this, there is also evidence that suggests that it reduces the risk of heart disease. (Compiled by Zeenia F Baria) Article continues Stay updated on the go with The Times of India’s mobile apps. Click here to download it for your device. 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These five groups and typical minimum servings are: * Vegetables: 3-5 servings per day. A serving may consist of 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables, 3/4 cup of vegetable juice, or 1/2 cup of other vegetables, chopped raw or cooked. * Fruits: 2-4 servings per day. A serving may consist of 1/2 cup of sliced fruit, 3/4 cup of fruit juice, or a medium-size whole fruit, like an apple, banana, or pear. * Bread, cereal, or pasta: 6-11 servings per day. Each serving should equal 1 slice of bread, 1/2 cup of rice or pasta, or 1 ounce of cereal. * Protein foods: 2-3 servings of 2-3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish per day. A serving in this group may also consist of 1/2 cup of cooked dry beans, one egg, or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter for each ounce of lean meat. * Dairy products: 2-3 servings per day of 1 cup of low-fat milk or yogurt, or 1 1/2 ounces of natural cheese. Fiber Fiber is a carbohydrate component of plant foods that is usually un-digestible. It is found in foods like fruits, vegetables, whole-grain breads, cereals, brown rice, beans, seeds, and nuts. In adults, increased fiber has been linked with a reduction of chronic gastrointestinal problems, including colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and diverticulitis. In children, however, fiber's only proven benefit is its ability to ease constipation—providing bulk that can promote regular frequency of bowel movements, soften the stools, and decrease the time it takes food to travel through the intestines. However, since food preferences and eating habits may be established early in life, and since high-fiber foods contain other nutrients, parents should include these foods in children's daily diets. Protein Your child requires protein for the proper growth and functioning of his body, including building new tissues and producing antibodies that help battle infections. Without essential amino acids (the building blocks of protein), children would be much more susceptible to serious diseases. Protein-rich plants—such as dried beans and peas (legumes), grains, seeds, and nuts—can be used as valuable sources of protein. Other protein-rich foods include meat, fish, milk, yogurt, cheese, and eggs. These animal products contain high-quality protein and a full array of amino acids. Bear in mind, however, that red meat and shellfish are not only rich in protein and an important source of iron but are high in fat and cholesterol as well. Thus, your child should consume them only in moderate amounts. Select lean cuts of meat and trim the fat before cooking. Likewise, remove skin from poultry, and excess fat from fish, before serving. Fat Humans cannot live without fats. They are a concentrated source of energy, providing essential fatty acids that are necessary for a variety of bodily processes (metabolism, blood clotting, and vitamin absorption). However, high fat intake—particularly a diet high in saturated fats—can cause problems. Saturated fats are usually solid at room temperatures and are found in fatty meats (such as beef, pork, ham, veal, and lamb) and many dairy products (whole milk, cheese, and ice cream). They can contribute to the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques and lead to coronary artery disease later in life. A diet rich in saturated fats also can increase blood cholesterol, particularly in people who have inherited a tendency toward high cholesterol levels. For that reason, after age two, children should be served foods that are lower in fat and saturated fats. Chances are that your child's favorite foods are higher in fat than is desirable. Prudent eating means relying more on low-fat, low-cholesterol foods like poultry, fish, and lean meat (broiled, baked, or roasted; not fried), soft margarine (instead of butter), low-fat dairy products, and low-saturated-fat oils from vegetables, while limiting egg consumption. As a general guideline, fats should make up less than 30 percent of the calories in your child's diet, with no more than about one third or less of those fat calories coming from saturated fat, and the remainder from unsaturated (that is, polyunsaturated or monounsaturated) fats, which are liquid at room temperature and include vegetable oils like corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, and olive. Some parents find the information about various types of fat confusing. In general, oils and fats derived from animal origin are saturated. The simplest place to start is merely to reduce the amount of fatty foods of all types in your family's diet. Sugar Keep your child's sugar consumption at moderate levels. Sugar has plenty of calories, but dietitians often call them empty calories because they have very little additional nutritional value. Even so, many children consume sugar in great quantities, usually at the expense of healthier foods—that is, when youngsters drink sodas, they are usually leaving the milk in the refrigerator; when they eat a brownie, they may be overlooking the bowl of fruit, a good source of complex carbohydrates, on the kitchen table. Salt Table salt, or sodium chloride, may improve the taste of certain foods. However, researchers have found a relationship between dietary salt and high blood pressure in some individuals and population groups. High blood pressure afflicts about 25 percent of adult Americans and contributes to heart attacks and strokes. The habit of using extra salt is an acquired one. Thus, as much as possible, serve your child foods low in salt. In the kitchen, minimize the amount of salt you add to food during its preparation, using herbs, spices, or lemon juice instead. Also, take the salt shaker off the dinner table, or at least limit its use by your family. Because of the preservative properties of salt, processed foods often contain large amounts of it. Salt-rich foods may include processed cheese, instant puddings, canned vegetables, canned soups, hot dogs, cottage cheese, salad dressings, pickles, and potato chips and other snacks For additional information, see Reducing Sodium in Children’s Diets (CDC Vital Signs Fact Sheet).​ Making Healthier Food Choices Eat more often Eat only occasionally Baked potato French Fries Low-fat frozen yogurt Ice Cream Baked or grilled chicken Fried Chicken Bagels or English muffins Doughnuts and pasteries Graham crackers, fig bars, vanilla wafers Chocolate chip cookies Pretzels, plain popcorn Potato chips Last Updated 9/9/2014 Source Adapted from Caring for your School-Age Child: Ages 5 to 12 (Copyright © 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics) The information contained on this Web site should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician. 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Despite his corporate success, Koch still felt the need to attend to the health and wellness of others. He sold his stake in the entertainment business and began 10 years of wellness study with the likes of Drs. Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra and raw food guru David Wolfe. After becoming a certified nutritionist, Koch created Clean Plates as a resource for his clients who wanted to have access to healthy food options on-the-go. First written as a guide to Manhattan’s healthiest eateries, the book has since expanded to include restaurants in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. "I realized that educating and supporting my clients was important, but what was consistently leading to real change was providing them with practical resources that made it easy and enjoyable for them to find and eat better quality food," he explains. Written to appeal to foodies across the board, the Clean Plates books and Web site point food lovers to the healthiest and most sustainable neighborhood restaurants around from quick bites to fine dining. Whether you're a carnivore, vegan, or somewhere in between, Clean Plates help you make informed eating choices and highlight hot spots that serve locally grown, organic, and sustainably raised animal foods. My health story: I’m a nutrition consultant, and about three years ago I started Clean Plates as an extension of my work with clients. After I sold the entertainment business I ran with my brother, I started studying nutrition and got certified as a nutritional consultant through the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York. I also teach meditation. I am very dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for people to eat and live healthier. My future health projects: We’re launching an iPhone app this month, as well as a brand new Clean Plates Web site with more editorial content than ever before. I’m also working on a book to be published by Running Press, which will be released in Fall 2012. My favorite healthy habit: Cooking and eating deliciously prepared vegetables. I honestly crave vegetables if I go a little while without eating them. I also love fruit. My health hero: People who make the choice and effort to put better quality foods into their bodies. My practice for what I preach: Other than a tiny taste of dessert every once in a blue moon, or if it’s been slipped into something without my realizing it, I haven’t eaten any refined sugar for several years. My best health tip: I think I have two. No matter what your diet is today, just adding more vegetables will have a positive impact. Making small changes over time will lead to big results. 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According to experts, the answer is yes. James Twyman, a bestselling author who believes people can attract everything they want in life, agrees that how people think can propel their life for better or worse. He feels that in addition to saying positive things (many people select mantras that they say repeatedly), individuals must also truly believe in what they are saying. In other words, what people think about what they say must be met with a genuine desire and belief in order for the desired outcome to be fully realized. He's not alone. Esther Hicks, who encourages others with words of positivity stemming from the inspirational guidance of Abraham-Hicks, says that thoughts can guide us in ways people may not typically consider. Sure, winning the lottery might be nice, or falling in love with that certain someone would be dandy, but what about eating healthy foods? How positive thoughts lead to healthy food choices Hicks explains that positive thinking (or not) is directly related to the foods people choose to eat. People who regularly think bad, woe-is-me thoughts tend to want to fuel their bodies with things that are just as negative. She explains that it all comes down to staying in tune with the body by "living harmoniously." Much of this has to do with taking responsibility that thoughts lead people to choose certain foods which either help or harm health. Therefore, she makes the argument that it isn't a specific food or set of foods that can be detrimental to health per se, but rather the mindset a person has in the first place that propels them to make bad eating decisions. Therefore, Hicks says people should "stop the 'outside-in' approach" of making lists of what foods we should eat and instead "get in alignment with who [we] really are and let who we really are choose [our] food." Studies published in the Journal of Food Psychology reinforce what these experts say. Researchers at Cornell University Food and Brand Lab found that people eat " . . . healthy or indulgent foods depending on whether they are in a good or a bad mood" and that ". . . individuals in positive moods who make healthier food choices are often thinking more about future health benefits than those in negative moods, who focus more on the immediate taste and sensory experience." Now, pass that bowl of fresh, organic fruit please! Sources for this article include: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/op/moodfood http://www.naturalnews.com http://rawandnaturalhealth.com http://www.jamestwyman.com/index.html About the author: A science enthusiast with a keen interest in health nutrition, Antonia has been intensely researching various dieting routines for several years now, weighing their highs and their lows, to bring readers the most interesting info and news in the field. 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Although in percentage terms the less healthy foods still increased significantly in price, in absolute terms the healthier foods rose by £1.84 per 1,000kcal over 10 years compared to just £0.73 for the less healthy items. “Since 2002, more healthy foods and beverages have been consistently more expensive than less healthy ones, with a growing gap between them,” the researchers wrote. “This trend is likely to make healthier diets less affordable over time, which may have implications for individual food security and population health.” Pointing out that the cost of diet-related ill health to the NHS is estimated at £5.8bn a year, they added that the Government should consider “routine food price monitoring” so action could be taken if healthy foods became unaffordable for low earners. The study, published in the journal Plos One, was carried out by the Centre for Diet and Activity Researches at the University of Cambridge. Food for thought: How much is healthy grub? 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Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (November 2011) A Health food restaurant is a restaurant that serves primarily, or exclusively, health foods. The history of health food restaurants includes their influence on other restaurants, including fast food establishments. The types of foods found at health food restaurants has changed, alongside the changing definition of what constitutes a health food. Other types of restaurants and menus included in this general category include vegetarian, vegan, raw, macrobiotic, organic, and low-fat. Contents * 1 History * 2 Types of health food restaurants + 2.1 Vegetarian + 2.2 Organic * 3 Influence on other restaurants + 3.1 Fast food * 4 See also * 5 References * 6 External links History[edit] Globe icon. The examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (May 2011) This is a summary timeline of important events in the development of the health food restaurant. * 1906 – The health food obsession began by introducing "Alcohol Free Restaurants" and by promoting unprocessed foods.^[citation needed] * 1912 – Ganda Chagan Kapitan opened GC Kapitan, one of the first vegetarian restaurants^[where?]. * 1927 – Due to William Childs' concerns about health, the Childs Restaurants began serving only vegetarian food, known as the Child's Unique Dairy Lunch. However, this meatless menu led to a severe loss of business, and the policy was soon revised.^[citation needed] * 1930 – Fresh yeast was found to be beneficial for certain ailments: skin blemishes, headaches, and colds. * 1943 – By the middle of World War II in Toronto, the public was complaining that conditions in restaurants had deteriorated significantly. In September 1943, The board of health, the Food Control Director, and six restaurant inspectors, decided to meet and to implement improvements in sanitation, and to mandate a semi-annual health inspection and certificate for food handlers.^[1] * 1965 – Subway was founded by Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck. Subway offered submarine sandwiches and salads as healthy alternatives to fast food restaurants, with franchises throughout the United States and in other countries.^[2] * 1970s – Good Earth, a health food restaurant franchise based in California, was founded, then eventually purchased by General Mills in 1980.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] * 1999 – Restaurant Nora became America's first certified organic restaurant, which meant that 95% or more of everything that you ate there had been produced by certified organic growers and farmers who share Nora's commitment to sustainable agriculture. * 2011 – KFC's parent company, Yum Brands Inc., committed to placing calorie counts on menu boards at corporate-owned restaurants nationwide^[where?] by January 1, 2011. A new US federal law eventually will require all chain restaurants to do this.^[citation needed] Types of health food restaurants[edit] Vegetarian[edit] Vegetarian restaurants do not serve meat, but do serve dairy products and eggs. They are generally seen as a healthier type of restaurant, though nutritionists have not identified them as such. There are thousands of restaurants catering to vegetarians around the world. Many restaurants have vegetarian menu items, based significantly on the pressure from the vegetarian movement. Organic[edit] Organic food is food grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, using only natural fertilizers. While there are relatively few organic restaurants, organic ingredients are showing up increasingly on menus at many mid priced and higher priced restaurants.They are GMO free. Influence on other restaurants[edit] Fast food[edit] Fast food restaurants have included some menu items touted as healthier, including Taco Bell's new Cantina Menu in 2012. See also[edit] Portal icon Food portal Portal icon Companies portal Portal icon Health and fitness portal * Food guide pyramid * Food * Healthy eating pyramid * List of vegetarian restaurants * Nutrition * Restaurants * SPE Certified References[edit] 1. ^ Heather Anne MacDougall (1990). Activists and advocates: Toronto's health department, 1883–1983. Dundurn Press Ltd. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-1-55002-072-4. Retrieved 5 April 2011. 2. ^ Knowing The Best Franchise Businesses. Uber Articles (2010-05-21). Retrieved on 2011-04-05. 3. ^ [1] 4. ^ [2] 5. ^ [3] 6. ^ [4] External links[edit] Look up vegetarian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Health food restaurant * Resources/Support for Vegetarians * Vegan Eating Out – Vegan restaurant and fast food chain guide. 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One solution? Create menus that draw attention to low-calorie fare. Olga Khazan Aug 6 2014, 10:34 AM ET * * Share on Facebook * Twitter * LinkedIn * Email * Print * Comments [lead.jpg?n9w3td] Basheer Tome/Flickr The diner menu is a peculiar thing: It's meant to be scrutinized when one is, at best, hungover. But it's packed with a dizzying array of options that requires a sharp mind to parse. Its offerings are usually basic comforts, yet it has the comprehensiveness and heft of the Book of Deuteronomy. Do you go with the "Boss Hog" sandwich, with its puddle of BBQ sauce, or do you atone for whatever brought you to the diner in the first place by ordering the house salad? It can be hard to pick the healthiest choice from a big menu, but that's what public health experts want us to do. Americans get more than a third of their calories from food prepared outside the home, and these meals tend to be more caloric, by a lot. The popularity of restaurants has risen in tandem with the obesity epidemic. But restaurants have their own worries—like staying in business. It's fine if you order the $3 fruit cup instead of the $12 steak sandwich, but if too many people do that, your neighborhood Bread Zeppelin might close its doors. So if restaurants hawk healthy food, it has to be high-margin healthy food. Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor of food marketing, thinks that by hacking their menus, eateries can please themselves, their customers, and their customers' doctors. Here's how, according to a study he published recently in the International Journal of Hospitality Management: * People don't always notice the healthy stuff—often our eyes jump directly toward the pasta or burgers. He recommends restaurants use graphics, color highlights, and creative fonts to attract attention to the vegetables and whole grains. Fancier places can use descriptors like "Chef's Recommendation" or "Traditional Favorite," which have been shown to increase consumption by 28 percent. * Whatever you do, don't label the healthy stuff as "healthy"—in food psychology, that's a "red light" for the restaurant patron. ("If I wanted to be healthy I would have gone to Nine Inch Kales or Quinoas of the Stone Age!") * Place healthy items at the four corners of the menu. People naturally scan menus like they do magazines. * Put the healthy food at the tops and bottoms of columns—those items sell by 25 percent more. * Give healthy, high-margin foods more attractive names by larding on the adjectives. “Succulent Italian Seafood Fillet," they point out, sells 28 percent more than “seafood salad.” * Use whole dollar figures ($14) rather than decimals ($14.00) to make things seem cheaper. Better yet, don't put the dollar sign at all: It helps if people don't think about how much they're paying for that melon slaw. In summary, this is the menu that Wansink thinks could adequately push the good-for-you lunches: International Journal of Hospitality Management Sure, it could use a little graphic design help. But according to Wansink, it's a good way of "1) shifting attention, 2) enhancing taste expectations, and 3) increasing perception of value" to get people to eat better. As he describes, it's a "win-win strategy." Hey, there's even a Happy Ending. 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More in Nutrition Advice right arrow Can any fast food menu options be healthy? BY Sharon Labi Freelance Journalist * Email * Print * RATING: * 0 comment Fast-food chains are now offering a lot of 'healthy food' options, but Sharon Labi discovers they may not be better for you. Can any fast food menu options be healthy? The average Australian eats out four times a week at one of the nation's 17,000 fast-food restaurants. This includes the chains as well as the independent burger and chicken shops. In the face of rising obesity figures, a general desire to eat better and negative publicity, fast-food outlets have responded by offering "healthier" choices. But are these meals that much better for us? Elizabeth Dunford, a researcher at the George Institute for Global Health, has compiled the most comprehensive look at fast food in Australia to date and has found the short answer to the question is no. While some fast foods appear to be healthy, they are often still laden with saturated fat, sugar, salt and nasty trans fats. What's worse is thinking, "Well, I've only had a salad so I can treat myself to dessert", and before you know it you have just consumed more kilojoules and sugar than eating a whole pizza. Beyond the marketing Most fast-food outlets are trying to offer healthier options, but don't be fooled into thinking they are good for your health. Take the Shannan Ponton-endorsed Biggest Loser Good Choice Range by Domino's Pizza. Yes, the barbecue chicken and mushroom ciabatta pizza is healthier than a supreme, but it's still packed with 5.5 grams of saturated fat and 772 milligrams of sodium (there's two grams of saturated fat and 147 milligrams of sodium in a poached egg), not to mention 0.3 grams of harmful trans fatty acids. "They are trying," Dunford says. "A lot of fast-food outlets have made commitments to salt reduction. Domino's Pizza has committed to reducing sodium content by 25 per cent across its menu over the next three years, while Pizza Hut and KFC have committed to a 10 per cent reduction over 12 months." But nutritionists say fast-food outlets would be better off reformulating their entire menus, making small changes in salt and fat content and adding more vegetables rather than just offering some token healthier alternatives. Marketing expert Professor Charles Areni from the University of Sydney says presenting healthy items on a menu cluttered with unhealthy choices may make people eat more of the bad stuff because they think they're entitled to indulge. "Fast-food restaurants are legitimately concerned about negative publicity. It's a public relations move to say, 'We're doing something about healthy food options', but what they may inadvertently be doing is making things worse," Professor Areni says. He says research from Duke University in the US found a person can feel they've met a health goal by taking a small action such as considering a salad without actually ordering it. He says the authors of the paper, published last year in the Journal Of Consumer Research, found the presence of healthy items on fast-food menus had a liberating effect on people who valued healthy meals, allowing them to actually give in to temptation and make an unhealthy choice. And even when you try to make a healthy choice by ordering a salad or a sandwich, you may be deceiving yourself by thinking these are healthy options. Dunford found that less than half the salads available were low fat - the worst offenders were caesar salads, which were laden with saturated fat, kilojoules and sodium, and coleslaw, which contained high levels of sugar. "It's surprising that consumers will think they're the healthy options, but they're probably better off having a burger," Dunford says. Most sandwiches contained almost half the recommended maximum daily intake of sodium, according to Dunford's study, which was published in the journal Appetite in September. Dunford says consumers are confused and expect that salads and sandwiches will be better than pizza and burgers, but that's not always the case. Family friendly Aloysa Hourigan, Nutrition Australia's senior dietitian, agrees that the marketing behind healthier choices is clever. "It takes you into the fast-food environment, so while mum might choose the healthier option, the child will probably still end up with the burger and fries. At the end of the day, the fast-food restaurants are interested in sales and their biggest sellers are fries and soft drinks." McDonald's is certainly reaping the rewards of its marketing campaigns and claims a record 1.7 million Australians visit its stores each day - up 500,000 since 2007 - and it attributes the rise in its popularity to its healthier choices menu. It has opened 50 new stores around Australia in the past three years, giving it a total of 811 outlets. KFC has 540 and Hungry Jack's 340. While McDonald's Heart Foundation Tick meals still contain chicken nuggets or burgers, they are served with a salad instead of fries. Nutritionist Catherine Saxelby says you might be getting some vegetables and lower kilojoule and fat intake with these meals, but they often still contain high levels of sodium. "It's not the ideal meal, but I recognise that people are still going to buy fast food regardless of what we nutritionists tell them. It's a step in the right direction." Food coach Judy Davie says it's best to avoid fast food altogether as even healthy menu options contain trans fats and additives and are packed with salt and sugar. "It's a social necessity to offer a healthier option these days," Davie says. Lola Berry, nutritionist and author of the recently released book Inspiring Ingredients, says it's becoming trendy to be healthy and fast-food outlets are giving consumers what they want - healthier options. "If it means people who would always eat fast food having a salad meal instead of a burger and chips, then it's a positive step, but it's scary to think that some of the healthier options, if you go through them with a fine-tooth comb, aren't necessarily all that much healthier," Berry says. 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Share This Article Share * Spread the Word to Friends And Family By Sharing this Article. * * Tweet * * * * Email to a friend Email * Print __________________________________________________________________ Caesar Salad Fast Food McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal is a supposedly "healthy" breakfast item that actually contains more sugar than a Snickers bar. Fast-food joints routinely offer healthy-sounding options that aren't really health food. Time Magazine lists a few, including: McDonald's Premium Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken The chicken is listed as "grilled chicken breast fillet," but it's not breast meat -- it's reconstituted rib meat combined with 22 additives such as "polysorbate 80" and "autolyzed yeast extract". Jamba Juice Mango Mantra Light Smoothie A 20 ounce Mango-a-go-go contains 85 grams of sugar. The "light" variety, however, only contains 48 grams -- but bear in mind that the daily limit recommended by the American Heart Association, which is already far too high, is 34 grams of added sugar for women and 36 grams for men. Subway Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich A foot-long Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sandwich actually contains 34 grams of added sugar, or your total daily recommended intake of sugar if you are female. Add to this 2,020 mg of sodium, that's 520 mg more salt than the USDA recommends that children, those with high blood pressure, the elderly and African Americans should consume in an entire day. Dr. Mercola's Comments: Follow Dr. Mercola on Twitter Follow Dr. Mercola on Facebook Have you been health-washed by one of the big fast food chains into believing their incredibly skewed health claims about their products? Chances are, if you live in the US, you've been exposed to the tactics currently being used by the processed fast-food industry to convince you their products are good for you. But are they healthy? Not according to the article above, which refers to the tactics used by fast food chains as "shell games". In an ongoing effort to make their menu items sound healthy, they often leave out the details of what is actually in their products, which (fancy marketing aside) is where the real trouble begins in the first place. The article encourages you to: "…always scope out the nutrition information on a fast-food restaurant's website before you show up and order. You may be surprised by what you learn." I couldn't have said it better myself. But it turns if you look a little deeper, there's a lot more you can learn about fast food menu items that you will never discover from looking at the nutrition information on their website. Problem #1 with Fast Food Menu Items Feedlot animals. Eating the food at nearly every fast food chain (except maybe Chipotle and a few other restaurants committed to sustainable, organic suppliers) means you are consuming feedlot animal meat – flesh that comes from animals raised in crowded unsanitary conditions, fed massive doses of antibiotics and unnatural "frankenfeed" full of GM crops and some other truly disturbing ingredients. The problem begins at the massive CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations), where the beef, chicken of pigs are fed genetically modified corn and soybeans and excessive grains in general (which are not the natural diet of these animals), along with the following almost unbelievable feed ingredients: * Plastics -- for the many animals whose digestive systems need roughage to pass food through them, the CAFOs now use of plastic pellets. * Meat from members of the same species -- CAFOs turn farm animals into cannibals. Scientific research has linked this practice to the spread of both mad cow disease and avian bird flu. * Manure and animal feces-- this can include cattle manure, swine waste, and poultry waste. It also includes wood, sand, rocks, dirt, sawdust and other non-food substances. * Roxarsone -- more commonly known as arsenic, which is put into chicken and pig feed to control intestinal parasites which might cause them to eat less and grow slower. Chicken litter (containing the arsenic that passes through the birds) is also collected from chicken CAFOs and fed to feetlot cattle, for some apparent reason that defies common sense. * Animal byproducts -- categorized as "animal protein products", this includes rendered feathers, hair, skin, hooves, blood, internal organs, intestines, beaks and bones, dead horses, euthanized cats and dogs, and road kill. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the decidedly unhealthy practices that go on at an CAFO, in fact see these previous articles on the dangers of GM crops, which are the exclusive plant-based feed of most AFO animals. The main thing to remember is the CAFOs exist only to extract maximum profit out of each unit of animal – this means spending the least amount of money possible to house the animals, feed the animals and care for the animals. Do I even have to tell you that the cheapest food, housing and care does not produce the highest quality end result? So if you're eating fast food meats, you're eating feetlot produced meats -- and if you really took the time to investigate all the mind-boggling things that go on at modern day CAFOs, you might understand once and for all why I am continually encouraging you to eat only organic meats and fish. Problem #2 with Fast Food Menu Items Salt. Also known as sodium, and usually comes in the form of sodium chloride which is 40 percent sodium. The daily requirement for the general population set by the USDA for sodium is surprisingly low, just a little over one teaspoon of table salt, 2,400 mg of sodium. Most fast food items are high in sodium, because that translates to more flavorful food. Eating several different fast food items in the same meal will send your sodium count well above the USDA recommended daily amount fairly quickly. For more information about just how quickly, check out the website of your favorite fast food restaurant, where they must now list the nutritional information about all their products. So what does consuming more than 2,400 mg of salt per day lead to? High blood pressure, also called hypertension. There is a known direct link between excessive sodium intake and high blood pressure. Hypertension is such a common health problem that one out of three of you reading this article has it, and uncontrolled hypertension is a serious health concern that can cause heart disease and increase your risk of having a stroke. It's especially dangerous because it often has no warning signs or symptoms. Hypertension can lead to the following: a drop in your average walking speed sleep apnea kidney disease heart disease dementia stroke So if you're regularly eating fast food, or restaurant food in general, your daily sodium intake is probably much too high. Problem #3 with Fast Food Menu Items * Sugar * Corn Syrup * Fructose Today, the average American is consuming almost 60 gallons of soda annually, much of it no doubt purchased at fast food restaurants. Soda consumption has risen by 70 percent since 1977. And sugar is in nearly everything on the menu at your favorite fast food restaurant: It's in the drinks, in the buns, in the sauces and in the desserts. One of the problems we've now discovered about consuming all this sugar -- it's raising your uric acid levels. What does this mean? It's been long known that people with high blood pressure and kidney disease, and people who are overweight, often have elevated uric acid levels. It was previously thought this increased uric acid in your body were a result of these diseases, but it now appears now it may be CAUSING these diseases in the first place! And what causes your elevated uric acid levels is sugar and especially fructose. Not surprisingly, uric acid levels have been increasing for the past hundred years in the US population thanks to the ubiquity of sugar in the our food supply. And we now know that when your uric acid level exceeds about 5.5 mg per dl, you have an increased risk for a host of diseases, including: Hypertension (Again! That makes two out of three main problem ingredients at fast food joints that cause hypertension!) Fatty liver Kidney disease Elevated triglycerides, elevated LDL, and cardiovascular disease Insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetes For pregnant women, even preeclampsia So sugar in the form of soda and high-fructose corn syrup isn't just bad for you, it's probably the number one cause of your less-than-optimal health. As with my recommendation to avoid foodlot meats and excess sodium, I also recommend that you avoid sugar whenever possible -- and eliminate it completely from your diet if you are serious about regaining your health. Please see this information about strategies for reducing your sugar addiction. How to Effectively Reverse a Fast Food Diet Without Drugs If you find yourself diagnosed with hypertention or diabetes, or if you are currently overweight or obese because you've been eating a fast food or processed food diet for years without really thinking about the consequences, don't give up hope. A vast majority of people can normalize their blood pressure and blood sugar levels, as well as take off some excess weight simply by implementing a few techniques that address the underlying cause of these conditions, namely high insulin levels. The techniques for reversing a fast food diet and regaining your health are as follows: Exercise – One of the most effective ways to lower your insulin levels is through exercise. A regular, effective exercise program can go a long way toward reducing your insulin levels and your blood pressure. Avoid foods that boost insulin levels – Another effective method is to avoid foods that will raise your insulin, such as sugar-type foods and grains. Even whole, organic grains will rapidly break down to sugars, so they too should be avoided. If you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or obesity, you'll want to avoid foods like: * Breads * Pasta * Rice * Cereal * Potatoes While vitamin C may be helpful, you'll also want to avoid eating too many fruits; the types and amounts being adjusted based on your nutritional type. One food that can be helpful for reducing your blood pressure is crushed, raw garlic. Many people swear by it, and it's something you can easily add to your diet. Have tools to help you address your stress – You'll also want to take steps to reduce your stress, as that is a factor for some people. Prayer, meditation, or the Emotional Freedom Technique are all useful techniques. Optimize your vitamin D levels – It has recently become clear that normalizing your vitamin D levels can have a powerful effect on normalizing your blood pressure. Lower vitamin D levels is also unquestionably associated with an increased risk for heart disease. Balance your omega-6 to omega-3 fat ratio – Most Americans eating a standard American diet have a ratio of 25:1 or even as high as 50:1 omega 6:3 ratio, which is highly unbalanced. The ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fats is 1:1. Therefore, you'll want to lower the amount of vegetable oils (the prime omega 6 oils) in your diet, and make sure you have a high quality, animal-based source of omega-3s. How to Avoid the Unhealthy Fast Food Pitfalls Even when they tout their food as healthy, as the article above shows in vivid detail, fast food is anything but healthy. The big three things to look out for, whether you are eating fast food or eating out in general, are the CAFO feedlot meats, high sodium intake and high sugar intake. A great way to counter the CAFO feedlot meats is to buy only organic, grass fed beef and organic chicken. When shopping, always look for the USDA organic label, or buy from local farmers who you know to be using organic, sustainable methods. You can also use the helpful GMO Shopping Guide which will help you to choose not only organic meats, but organic foods in general. Ideally, you'll also want to consume as much whole, raw, organic and/or locally grown foods as possible. That's why so many people like vegetable juicing. You're consuming living raw food. Most vegetables also have very low carbohydrate levels that minimally disturb insulin metabolism -- another important trait of a healthful diet. I also believe optimal health is largely dependent on eating the right foods for your nutritional type. To find out your type, visit my Nutritional Typing test. Lastly, if you're absolutely hooked on fast food and other processed foods, you're going to need some help and most likely some support from friends and family if you want to kick the fast food lifestyle. 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Not all food items are always listed on restaurant menus. Not all food items are always listed on restaurant menus. Be warned, this mission includes very real dangers such as hardening arteries and skyrocketing cholesterol. We've compiled a list to get you started. 1. If you're at Starbucks and in need of just a little caffeine, don't worry -- there's a tiny option for you. It's the Short size, and they don't advertise it. It's like a little baby cup of coffee. It also comes in handy when you're scrounging for change and don't have enough for a tall (not that that has ever happened to me). 2. It's a good thing we don't have Jamba Juice here in Iowa, because I would be all over candy-based smoothies. Because it's considered a health-food chain, Jamba Juice doesn't officially list these on their in-store menus, but the Web site Mighty Foods assures us that the secret flavors exist. The ones they confirmed with the company's headquarters include Strawberry Shortcake, White Gummy Bear, PB&J, Various flavors of Starbursts, Fruity Pebbles, Push-Up Pops, and Skittles. Other tantalizing flavors that are rumored to exist: Chocolate Gummi Bear, Apple Pie, Sourpatch Kid, Tootsie Roll, and Now and Later. 3. This one might be my favorite. At Fatburger, you can order a Hypocrite -- a veggie burger topped with crispy strips of bacon. 4. Chipotle has a whole secret menu that is limited only by your imagination -- they have a store policy that says that if they have the item available, they will make it for you. Things that have been tested include nachos, quesadillas, taco salads and single tacos. Some stores are testing out quesadillas as a regular menu item, however, so maybe someday soon you won't need a super-secret handshake to order one. Mental Floss: 7 food promotions gone horribly wrong 5. If you're at Wendy's and you're really hungry -- like, three-patties-just-won't-cut-it hungry -- go ahead and order the Grand Slam, which is four patties stacked on a bun. This option is only available at select Wendy's, and it's also known as the Meat Cube. Don't Miss * Mental Floss: 8 strange and different restaurants * Mental Floss: Fast food videogames * Mental Floss: 10 quirky marriage proposals * Mental Floss: How 16 athletes got their nicknames * Mental Floss: How does scratching relieve an itch? 6. Several places, including McDonald's and In-N-Out, will serve you the Neapolitan milkshake. It's just what it sounds like -- chocolate, vanilla and strawberry shakes layered in a cup. 7. In-N-Out Burger's "secret menu" isn't so secret these days -- in fact, they've posted it on their Web site. But in case you're not in the habit of surfing fast food Web sites, here's the skinny on their rather un-skinny items: ordering something "Animal Style" at In-N-Out means you're going to get it with lettuce, tomato, a mustard-cooked beef patty, pickles, extra spread (it's sort of Thousand-Islandy) and grilled onions. You can even get your fries Animal Style. Mental Floss: Why is it called "Thousand Island" dressing? "Protein Style" is a burger wrapped in a lettuce leaf instead of a bun. A Grilled Cheese is two slices of American cheese, lettuce, tomato and spread on a bun (grilled onions if you so choose). And you can get just about any combo of meat and cheese that you want if you order it like you're ordering lumber: 3×3 gets you three beef patties and three slices of cheese, 4×4 gets you four of each, and so on. According to photos posted at SuperSizedMeals.com, one gluttonous patron requested and received a 100x100 at a Las Vegas store a few years ago. One item not listed on the Web site secret menu: the Flying Dutchman, which is two slices of cheese sandwiched between two patties, hold the bun. 8. Feeling a little health-conscious at Popeye's? If you are, you really should have gone somewhere else. But there's a little hope for you -- ordering "naked chicken" will get you breading-free poultry. The word is that this is on the menu at some Popeye's, but not all of them, although it is an option at all of them. 9. Like Chipotle, Taco Bell will make you just about anything within reason as long as they have the ingredients for it. Since most of the food at Taco Bell is made out of the same basic items, that means you can probably ask for most discontinued items and get them. One "secret," though, is that they have a not-advertised green chili sauce at most locations, and apparently it's excellent. 10. Some Subways will still make you the popular pizza sub from the 1990s. Once the chain decided to make their focus healthy eating, the pizza sub disappeared from the menu in most places (the word is that Canadian and Mexican Subways still offer them on a regular basis). But if you ask, lots of places will still make it for you. Be warned, though -- Jared would not approve of the nine slices of pepperoni and copious amounts of cheese slathered in marinara sauce. Mental Floss: Brief history of dubious dieting E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend Share this on: Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg del.icio.us reddit MySpace StumbleUpon | Mixx it | Share For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC. All rights reserved. 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Choose Healthy Foods "When you're being treated for cancer, it's important to avoid extreme diets that may leave you short on key nutrients," says Veronica McLymont, PhD, RD, director of food and nutrition services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Instead, focus on eating a balanced diet. Ask your oncologist or a nutritionist if you need extra calories and protein to keep your strength up during treatment. * Choose whole grain breads and cereals. * Drink 100% fruit or vegetable juices. (Make sure they are pasteurized because you may be more susceptible to germs while you’re getting cancer treatment.) * Fill half of your plate with vegetables and fruits. * A few times a week, choose meatless meals such as vegetarian lasagna or vegetable stir-fry. * Snack on carrot sticks, sweet pepper slices, and fresh or dried fruits. * Have a leafy green salad with dinner. * Limit sugary foods -- the kind with lots of calories but very little nutrition. * Pick lean meats and fish more often than red meat and processed meats. Try to Eat, Even If You Don't Have an Appetite Lack of appetite is common during cancer treatment. Some treatments can even make food taste unpleasant. "Even though you don't feel like eating, it's important to get adequate nutrition," says Sarah Rafat, RD, a senior dietitian at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Here’s what to do: * Choose high-calorie, nutrient-rich foods such as avocados, nuts, beans, seeds, puddings, and cooked cereals. * Eat small meals throughout your day. * Don’t wait until you're hungry to eat. Instead, eat at certain times of day. * Keep your favorite foods close at hand. * Make your meals look appealing. Add parsley, lemon slices, cherry tomatoes, and other colorful garnishes to your plate. Ease Side Effects With Food Certain foods can help ease the common discomforts from cancer treatment. * Conquer constipation by drinking water and eating high-fiber foods like beans, lentils, vegetables, and fresh or dried fruit. * Drive away diarrhea with bland foods such as rice, bananas, and apples. Drink water to stay hydrated. * Protect mouth sores and avoid dry mouth by grinding or pureeing foods to make them easier to swallow. 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The key, say some researchers, is to outsmart your body, which, as you age, is busy half-forming or damaging your cells, rather than creating healthy new cells resistant to cancer, rapid aging, and other ills. These cells are damaged by "free radicals," a very reactive and unstable atom or groups of atoms with an odd, unpaired number of electrons. When free radicals bang into DNA in your cells, they can damage it, leading to bad cell behavior such as cancer. What can you do? Your body already has a defense system of antioxidants, chemicals that can interrupt the damaging reactions of the free radicals. Although antioxidants can also be found in our diets, examples include vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. Sometimes, scientists also include selenium in this mix. But do vitamins definitively lower cancer or heart disease rates? The studies thus far are not conclusive. Some findings do show that people who eat many fruits and veggies, which contain high amounts of these naturally antioxidants compounds, have lower cancer rates -- but maybe they are doing other healthful things. However, there is also some evidence indicating that taking vitamin supplements, especially taking high dosages of these so-called antioxidants, can result in more free radical damage. So judgment and moderation are vital. Moderation, however, may mean greens for dinner or a nice salad with olive oil dressing or glass of wine each day. How hard is that? Healthy Food No. 1: Leafy greens According to Audrey Cross, PhD, professor of public health at Columbia University in New York City, and author of the nation's first dietary guide under President Jimmy Carter, some people avoid the heaped-up greenery section of the produce aisle because they don't know how to prepare the foliage there. Others have never even considered grazing in these verdant fields. 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That’s definitely one of my main reasons for giving raw food a try. (Remember that when I say raw food, I don’t necessarily mean 100% raw.) Lately, I found myself giving out this little piece of advice: eating raw food doesn’t mean it’s necessarily healthier than other ways of eating. Hear me out… There are a lot of other things that go into your health, other than just the “label” you apply to your food. Maintaining healthy diets, for most of us can be tricky. So for instance, you might be eating raw food, but eating too much of it. Or you might be eating raw food, but eating too much of one category and not enough of another. Neither of these scenarios is very healthy. Or, you might be eating raw food but not drinking enough water, sleeping enough, or exercising enough. And then there’s your emotional and mental well being, all of which play into your overall health. Now, let’s take a closer look at what healthy foods are. The Healthy Foods List Here is a basic list of healthy foods that most people can agree on: * Fresh fruits and vegetables * Fresh leafy greens * Cold pressed extra virgin oils * Raw nuts and seeds * Sprouts * Seaweeds and sea vegetables Now we can split hairs and argue that we should include other foods, depending on what lifestyle you follow. For instance some may want to add superfoods, others may want to add in raw dairy or meat, you get the idea. But I think we can all agree that these are basically healthy foods. Especially fresh fruits and vegetables. The Unhealthy Foods List * Processed “white” foods like white breads, white pastas, etc. * Refined white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame * Addictive substances like MSG, and other “taste enhancing” chemicals * Processed, denatured fats and oils that the body cannot deal with Alright, so the unhealthy foods list is incomplete. That’s partly because it would take too long to include everything that might potentially be unhealthy. But it’s also because we don’t all agree on what’s unhealthy. Some people go around telling themselves that they’ll be healthy if they eat “Everything in Moderation“. And while the adage that eating everything in moderation probably held true 100 years ago, it certainly doesn’t hold today. There are more chemicals and ingredients that I can’t pronounce on a label for dried raisins than ever before. Dried raisins! Imagine what’s in super processed junk foods for a minute. It’s not pretty. How to Include More Healthy Foods and Less Unhealthy Foods I honestly believe that in order to eat more healthy foods we need to leave some of the unhealthy foods behind. If you’re too full from eating an entire bag of chips and a 1L bottle of Coke, then you’re not going to be inspired to eat an apple. Let alone a salad. 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News Healthy diet costs three times that of junk food Healthy foods cost three times as much as unhealthy foods, according to a Cambridge University study showing a widening gap in the costs between junk foods and fine fare Doughnut 1,000 calories made up from healthy items cost an average of £7.49 in 2012 while the same calorie intake from less healthy items, including doughnuts, could be purchased for an average of £2.50 Photo: Alamy Laura Donnelly By Laura Donnelly, Health Editor 7:00PM BST 08 Oct 2014 Follow Eating healthily costs three times as much as consuming unhealthy food - and the price gap is widening, according to a study by Cambridge University. Researchers examined almost 100 popular items of food, which is defined under Government criteria as healthy or not. They found that 1,000 calories made up from healthy items, such as lean salmon, yoghurts and tomatoes, cost an average of £7.49 in 2012. The same calorie intake from less healthy items, such as pizza, beef burgers, and doughnuts, could be purchased for an average of £2.50. The gap between the two 1,000 calorie baskets is now £4.99, the research found, when ten years ago it was £3.88. Related Articles * Bristol cafe serves up real junk food from skips 09 Oct 2014 * The worst teeth in England: first ever map of toddlers' dental health reveals 'shameful' variations 30 Sep 2014 * Quiz: How expensive is your healthy food? 08 Oct 2014 The average increase of healthy foods rose by £1.84 per 1,000 calories over the decade, while unhealthy food rose by 73 pence for the same energy intake, the study found. Researchers from the University’s Centre for Diet and Activity Research, called on Government to do more to bring down the costs of healthy food. Lead author Nicholas Jones said: "Food poverty and the rise of food banks have recently been an issue of public concern in the UK, but as well as making sure people don't go hungry it is also important that a healthy diet is affordable.” "The increase in the price difference between more and less healthy foods is a factor that may contribute towards growing food insecurity, increasing health inequalities, and a deterioration in the health of the population." Researchers tracked the price of 94 key food and drink items from 2002 to 2012. They found that more healthy foods were consistently more expensive than less healthy foods, with absolute costs increasing more than those of unhealthy fare. In 2002, 1,000 kcal of healthy food - as defined by government criteria - cost an average of £5.65, compared to purchasing the same quantity of energy from less healthy food at £1.77. By 2012 this cost had changed to £7.49 for more healthy and £2.50 for less healthy foods. While less healthy foods had a slightly greater price rise in percentage terms, the absolute increase was significantly more for more healthy foods - a total average increase of £1.84 per 1,000 kcal for more healthy food across the decade, compared 73 pence for less healthy food. The cost of diet-related ill health to the National Health Service has been estimated to be £5.8 billion annually. Mr Jones said: "The finding shows that there could well be merit in public health bodies monitoring food prices in relation to nutrient content, hopefully taking into account a broader selection of foods than we were able to in this study." Senior author Pablo Monsivais said Government policies needed to do more to address high prices of healthier foods, and subsidise some healthy foods for those on low incomes. The food and beverages studied were those which remained in the "basket" used by the Office of National Statistics' Consumer Price Index for the entire 10 years. Dr John Middleton, from the Faculty of Public Health, said rising prices of healthy foods were pushing too many families towards unhealthy fare and contributing to worrying increases in obesity and diabetes. “The cost of healthy options is one of many reasons why we have food poverty in the UK,” he said. “This is not just about individual choice. Blaming individuals for not knowing how to cook well on a low budget so they don’t fill up on cheap junk food won’t help.” He called on the government to set up an independent working group to monitor UK nutrition and hunger status. This will give us the independent and authoritative data to fully understand what is happening and what needs to be done to stop the scandal of food poverty. "When teachers report that school children are arriving at school unable to concentrate because they have not had breakfast, we have to take action to give our children the best start in life," he said. Healthy foods 2002 2012 (£/1000kcal): Tomatoes £9.53 £13.21 Vegetable burgers £2.17 £2.80 Semi-skimmed milk £1.07 £1.73 Canned tuna £3.22 £5.54 Yoghurt £14.09 £17.68 Salmon £4.11 £6.87 Lean beef mince £2.64 £4.52 Iceberg lettuce £11.36 £16.45 Cauliflower £6.89 £9.97 Canned soup £1.91 £3.42 Unhealthy foods 2002 2012 (£/1000kcal): Frozen pizza £2.10 £1.58 Beefburger £1.24 £2.01 Bacon £3.14 £4.15 Cola drink £2.61 £4.24 Doughnut £0.96 £0.98 Ice cream £1.50 £1.57 Box of chocolates £6.25 £4.68 Jar of jam £0.86 £0.99 Sponge cake £1.26 £1.21 Fizzy energy drink £4.09 £5.55 Prices are average prices from a range of products, using data from the Office for National Statistics’ basket of purchases. Foods are ranked as more healthy or less healthy, using Government criteria. News * UK News » * Health » * Health News » * Laura Donnelly » Top news galleries Appy snaps: Sadie Frost shares her Instagram gallery 'Morning.' 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Unhealthy? by THOMAS WILLIAMS Eating healthy requires a balanced choice of foods. Eating healthy requires a balanced choice of foods. (Photo: Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images ) Related Articles * 5 Ways to Make Unhealthy Food Healthy * The Benefits From a Healthy Lifestyle * What Healthy Eating Actually Is * What Are the Benefits of a Healthy Body? * Health Benefits of Lox vs. Baked Salmon * How to Eat Healthy at the Office SHARE SHARE TWEET EMAIL The Center for Science in the Public Interest reported that in 2010, only 10 percent of Americans had a healthy diet, while one-third of premature deaths resulted from unhealthy lifestyles. Healthy eating is essential for your well-being and protection against diseases; unhealthy eating can promote the development of chronic diseases and hinder your body from functioning properly. A healthy diet should have low levels of saturated fats, salt and cholesterol. It should also include vegetables, whole grains, fruits, milk, low-fat dairy products, lean meat products and plant proteins. Boosts Immunity Eating a nutrient-rich meal, especially one rich in antioxidants such as vitamin C and E, carotenoids and flavonoids helps your body fight diseases. Well-balanced meals also ensure that your body obtains immunity-boosting nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, iron, zinc and vitamins B-6, A, D and B-12. Unhealthy foods increase toxicity levels in your body, and fatty foods weaken your immunity. Increases Energy Levels The body’s main sources of energy are carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Including healthy foods such as whole grains and nuts in your diet ensures a gradual and stable supply of energy. Your body breaks down these foods gradually while ensuring you have a continuous supply of energy. Unlike healthy foods, unhealthy foods and drinks have empty calories and artificial sweeteners that destabilize your sugar levels, leaving you feeling hungry and sluggish. Encourages Weight Management The type and quantity of food you eat determines the amount of fat your body accumulates. Unhealthy foods have unsaturated fats that accumulate in the body, and can lead to obesity, while healthy foods are rich in dietary fiber that leaves you feeling fuller for longer. A well-balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables also provides your body with metabolism-boosting nutrients such as vitamin A, riboflavin and niacin, which can help your body burn fat. Emotional Well-being Energy-giving foods such as carbohydrates and proteins leave you feeling energetic and upbeat, which helps your emotional wellness. According to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, carbohydrates trigger a chain of chemical reactions that lead to the production of serotonin in the brain, a chemical that uplifts your mood. MayoClinic.com also reports that people who include fish, vegetables and fruits in their diets are less likely to suffer from depression. Unhealthy eating causes a deficiency of essential nutrients such as iron, which can leave you feeling dull and tired. When your body is not sufficiently hydrated, the results can be fatigue and low energy levels. References * Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight * Linus Pauling Institute: Nutrition and Immunity * European Food Information Council: Nutrition and the Immune System * NHS: The Energy Diet * Mayo Clinic: Energy Density and Weight Loss: Feel Full on Less Calories * National Foundation for Celiac Awareness: Nutrition for Mental Health and Emotional Wellness * Mayo Clinic: Depression (Major Depression) * HelpGuide.org: Healthy Eating * Elmhurst College: Overview of Metabolism * Center for Science in the Public Interest: National Health Priorities About the Author Based in London, Thomas Williams has been professionally writing health-related articles for more than 10 years. His articles appeared in " Nottingham Evening Post.” Williams is a Masters holder in Clinical Science from the University of Liverpool. 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Willpower can only get you so far when it comes to eating well. But many psychologists believe there are tricks we can use to change our tastes. What are they and how do they work? * Share * Tweet this * * [pin_it_button.png] * * Email Delicious … can we teach ourselves to like the right kinds of foods? Delicious … can we teach ourselves to like the right kinds of foods? Photograph: Getty Images/Vetta Usually by now, the New Year diet, detox or other form of extreme denial will have hit a wall, and the merciful retox will be fully under way. It has been proven time and again that quick-fix diets are counterproductive in the long run, and it's not just willpower failure making dieters regain the weight (and then some). A 2011 study indicated that depriving oneself of food changes the levels of hormones that control our appetites, fuzzing up our hunger compasses and making us eat even more. Furthermore, dieting has been shown to exacerbate an "emotional response to food". The holy grail, surely, is to learn to love health food more than junk, thus avoiding the binge-fast vicious circle. A colleague of mine used to describe his mid-afternoon Mars bar and Diet Coke as giving himself a "wee hug on the inside". Is this skewed view fixable? We know that most of our food likes are a triumph of nurture over nature, with the exceptions of an innate fondness for sweet, and distaste for bitter. "There may or may not be an innate preference for umami flavour, and there's a debate about fat flavour," says Anthony Sclafani, professor of psychology at Brooklyn College. "But other than that, when we're talking about real foods, let's assume most of the preferences are learned." 'Flavour flavour' learning Our taste biases develop in various ways. Flavour flavour [sic] learning, for instance, is a form of Pavlovian conditioning. For example, if you drink Coca-Cola, says Sclafani, you may enjoy the taste at first because you already like sweetness. Then, the more you drink it, the fonder you will become of the other gustatory characteristics of that particular brand. A 2006 study into whether flavour flavour learning can help children feel more positively about broccoli produced encouraging results. After being fed sweetened broccoli, the kids liked the taste of plain broccoli more. Lower your taste thresholds We all have different thresholds for feeling satisfied by tastes. These are controlled in part physiologically – the abundance and function of our taste buds differ, making us more or less sensitive to tastes – but over time we also get used to certain levels of, say, sweetness and saltiness. If you don't salt your pasta water, you're going to think most ready meals taste of rock pool. It's all relative. I once gave up anything with added sugar for a month. I quickly became an evangelical bore, yammering on about how apples now tasted better than cake to me. However, this transformation didn't last. To make permanent changes, you need to reduce the levels little by little, so each step is imperceptible. "A number of [food] companies are facing the necessity to reduce salt or sugar or fat," says Charles Spence, professor of experimental psychology at Oxford University. "What happens if you do that suddenly? People don't like the product any more. But execute the same change over a much longer period, very gradually, then we keep adapting," he says. The feel-good factor Another form of preference learning stems from the positive post-ingested nutritional effects of what you consume. So, returning to the Coca-Cola example, the glucose sends a positive message to the brain because that is its primary energy source (hence my colleague's Mars bar hug). But you can get a similar kick after consuming more nutritious foods. I can get a hug from brown rice. There, I've said it. Decent exposure Repeated exposure to pretty much any kind of stimulus brings a familiarity that breeds quite the opposite of contempt. One 2010 study showed that repeated tasting increased a liking for vegetables (except peppers, weirdly) among nine-and-10-year olds. "I believe that the same methods would work with adults though I don't know of any studies with adults," says Professor Jane Wardle of the Health Behaviour Research Centre, at UCL in London. It took just nine or 10 tries before the children said they liked the veg. Some even ticked the "like a lot" box. Knowledge is power Barb Stuckey, food developer and author of Taste What You're Missing: the passionate eater's guide to why good food tastes good, believes the best way to drum up enthusiasm for a type of food is to become an expert on it. Turn your nose up at greens and she'll say: "let's taste every single bitter green as if we are doing a horizontal wine tasting." You might notice that spinach is less bitter and has a soft mouth feel compared with kale, which is more tough and fibrous. Suddenly you're appreciating nuances in foods you previously only tolerated. Mindless v mindful eating Stuckey believes that the way forward is respecting and savouring food. I agree, but perhaps we're idealists. Brian Wansink, professor of consumer behaviour at Cornell University, certainly thinks so: "Most people come home from a 10-hour day of working and commuting. The kids are screaming and they have 16 things on their to-do list before going to bed. They can't cut a pea in half and say: 'Let me savour the pea.' The solution is not mindful eating – let's create an environment where we can mindlessly eat less without thinking about it." He has a point. And as Wardle admits: "When food is being used for comfort, or as a pick-me-up, most people choose something sweet or salty, and usually high in energy. Fruit and vegetables don't seem to cut it – with the possible exception of one of the most energy dense fruits – the banana." If you think you're overdoing the junk-food treats, know this: Wansink recently found that you can eat just 25% of your usual snack portion and be equally satisfied 15 minutes later. His research is behind many of those eat-less tips that are so simple you could easily dismiss them as too obvious: you'll have a smaller dinner if it's served from the stove rather than at the table; if you use smaller plates you'll eat less but feel just as full. I think that if you don't find a food disgusting, all you need is the right recipe to get you loving it. I used to skip past kale in the fruit-and-veg shop until I discovered how delicious it is with garlic, chilli, anchovies, parmesan, pasta and a squeeze of lime. I love this dish so much that I no longer blanch the kale before frying it. I love to chew the goodness out of the stalks. 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Our new resource, Healthy Food in Your Community, offers tools that will help you participate in the policy decisions that shape your community’s access to healthy food. This toolkit will demystify the often overwhelming world of food policy and provide practical tips and resources for getting involved. You will learn what are the key issues and policies affecting food access, how food policy decisions are made, and how you can build relationships within your community and take effective action. Navigating the Food System We encounter food and information about food in a wide range of settings, and food policy affects healthy food access in all of them: * At the grocery store, policies ranging from federal legislation to local zoning ordinances can shape affordability, accessibility, and financial viability. * At restaurants. Food policy can be a tool to help reduce the negative impact of fast-food restaurants on the health of marginalized communities. * On the label. 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DB wellness researcher Angie Bucu looks at ways to make healthy food fun and enjoyable for kids in 2014 Do you wonder if your kids are getting an adequate daily dose of nutrition? Are you even up to speed on the complex nutritional needs of kids? A plethora of diet and nutritional guidelines are available from sources like the Department of Health, Centre for Health Protection and Hong Kong Nutrition Association. But as with all matters of health and wellness, information, though abundant, can be confusing. Let’s hear from some Lantau nutritionists, kids and parents who are finding simple ways for the whole family to enjoy healthy and nutritious food. Nutrition 101 “Diet is our biggest interaction with the environment, having more impact on gut and brain health and development than anything else,” advises Graeme Bradshaw, naturopath and founder of the Integrated Medicine Institute in Central, which opens a branch in DB on January 6. “Selecting wholefoods that are nutritionally dense, as well as satisfying to kids allows their growing bodies and brains to function at their optimum. Refined and processed foods are nutritionally depleting by contrast.” Getting kids to eat vegetables seems to be the biggest hurdle parents face. In a recent survey by the Centre for Health Protection, only 16% of Hong Kong kids were found to be consuming sufficient vegetables, whereas nearly 63% consume the recommended serving of fruit. Jessica Williams, nutrition consultant and founder of Evolving Wellness in Mui Wo, says that grouping fruits and vegetables together creates the misconception that having four to five servings of fruit will satisfy nutritional needs. “Too much fruit can actually have a negative impact on blood sugar,” she says. “One to two servings of fruit (including fruit juice) per day should be the maximum with four to six servings of vegetables per day in a separate group.” So what are the serving recommendations for children? Eschewing the traditional food-pyramid model, Lisa Fossey, nutritional therapist and founder of The Nutrition Clinic in Discovery Bay, recommends that each plate or lunchbox should consist of half vegetables, a quarter carbohydrate and a quarter protein. “Have vegetables, protein and fibre at every meal, and increase the good fats which are important for brain development,” she says. “Cut out the sugar and foods with additives, as these have been shown to have a negative effect on behaviour.” Breakfast like Kings Recent studies in childhood nutrition suggest that setting foundations about food and how and when children eat is what seems to work, and what will set them up as they move into adulthood. The World Health Organisation has warned that “nutrition and diet-related problems in adolescence start during childhood and continue into adult life”. Megan Jack, nutritionist and founder of Nutrition Plus, in Kowloon, is a firm believer in ensuring that children’s nourishment starts at the beginning of the day, and recommends protein and fibre as breakfast essentials. “As nutrients for mental health they can sustain and keep children full for longer. Breakfast is an easy yet important way to get nutrient-dense food into kids,” she says. Wholefood cereals like Weetabix or muesli (without added sugar) and milk or plain yoghurt, with some berries for the antioxidant support, are some of Megan’s recommendations. Even if kids are running out the door, a peanut-butter sandwich is better than nothing and ticks those essential nutrient boxes. Offer fun, healthy snacks! The reality is that kids need snacks and immediately after school is when they are essential. Without access to healthy alternatives, children will seek out junk food to satisfy their hunger. Having an octopus card makes it easy for kids to pick up unhealthy snacks at 7-11, McDonald’s and other fast-food outlets unmonitored. Preparing snacks as part of the lunchbox helps kids maintain energy levels right through to dinner time. DB resident Alexander Braun, age 11, is a boy with good taste. Found to be intolerant to a number of food groups as a young child, he has grown up eating healthy, and he now prefers nutritious food to junk food. His favourite snacks include fruit, and sandwiches or rice crackers with avocado and mackerel. Having been introduced to juicing at a young age, Alexander is also a big fan of vegetables. “I like eating salads a lot and I like vegetable juices even if they are a funny colour,” he says. “I like trying different vegetables at dinner in small qualities.” Get your kids involved Children have a natural curiosity and like to know how and why things work. Getting them involved in food preparation and cooking encourages them to try different foods. Young kids, who can’t yet chop or stir, can help out by washing the fruit and vegetables, setting the table and tasting dishes before they are served. “Even if the end product does not look nice, when I know what’s in it and what was involved in making it, I am happy to eat it,” Alexander confirms. DB resident Melissa Valentine, mother of Mason, seven, and Molly, five, takes her children shopping in search of healthy wholefoods which they then taste in different forms at home. “I suggest they pick three different things they’ve not tried before – a fruit or vegetable, a protein and a grain or nut/ seed,” Melissa explains. “When we get home, we take turns tasting each other’s choices in different forms – raw first (often described as yucky!) and then cooked. Even though my kids don’t like some of the things they taste, they love doing it and I get to talk to them about good and not-so-good food choices.” Eat together as a family Nutritionists place a lot of emphasis on eating together as a family but also recognise that working parents may find this difficult to achieve. They suggest that if this is impossible during the week, family meals are made a priority at the weekend. The idea is to create routine, boost family connections, and allow children to start exploring and discussing food at a young age. Once children are well into their solids, experts agree that everyone should be eating the same food at home. Parents with ‘picky eaters’ may be shaking their heads, suggesting this is not always possible. But Megan warns that “eating different foods, even if eating together as a family, can create a power play that may lead to unhealthy food choices and a diet high in calories, sugar and carbohydrates”. So what are your options? Don’t make anything special just for one family member, and don’t acknowledge a child’s fussiness or force the issue. Studies have shown that pressuring or bribing kids to eat an unwanted food item does not work as they end up disliking it even more. If children leave their food uneaten, ensure there is a healthy snack available for later. Megan suggests that tying food to relationships can ensure both healthy relationships with food and each other. “Most people who have been brought up this way have a good relationship with food,” she says. “They like good food and are healthy.” Sound snack ideas • Whole fruits • Trail mix (nuts, seeds and dried fruit – unsalted and no added sugar) • Rice cakes/ whole-wheat crackers with toppings likes avocado, cottage cheese, cherry tomato, cucumber, hummus, sardines • Baby carrots and veggie sticks • Oat cookies • Sandwiches with toppings like peanut butter, hummus, low-fat cheese, ham • Wasabi peas • Yoghurt or frozen yoghurt • Fruit smoothies – banana, kiwi and / or blueberry • Water Source: Nutrition Plus Eating the rainbow Tracy Griffith, chef and author of Stealth Health Lunches Kids Love is into healthy food options for kids that focus on colour. At a recent book launch and demonstration in Discovery Bay, she confirmed that children love a variety of colours in food, noting that this can make the plate or lunchbox healthier and more fun. You can learn more at www.tracygriffith.com/cookbook. 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What is The Healthiest Way of Eating? [title-HWE.gif] The Healthiest Way of Eating is eating for maximum nutrition and enjoyment. Eating is one of the few things we do every single day. And since most of us eat 3 or more meals a day we are eating over 1,000 meals a year! That means we have the opportunity to make 1,000 healthy decisions each year to positively affect our health. The Healthiest Way of Eating is designed to help you make decisions that will optimize your health. And it can be done in 3 easy steps: 1. Select health-promoting, nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods 2. Combine them in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan to fulfill your nutritional requirements 3. Use cooking methods that retain maximum nutrition and flavor The Healthiest Way of Eating is for those for whom eating is not merely a reaction to "hunger" but for those who want to eat for nourishment and better health. This new Healthiest Way of Eating goes far beyond taking in calories to satisfy your hunger; it is a way to enjoy foods that will nourish your body. If you want to eat healthier, the Healthiest Way of Eating does all the work for you by taking out all of the guesswork and making it creative, fun, easy, and enjoyable. Nutrient-Richness is the Paradigm at the Core of The Healthiest Way of Eating Nutrient-richness is the key to the Healthiest Way of Eating. It is the measurement of how many nutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein, fiber, carbohydrates, omega-3 fatty acids, and phytonutrients) you will receive from your food for the least number of calories. Nutrient-Rich World's = Maximum Nutrients Minimal Calories Your body requires over 50 vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids every day to operate efficiently and keep you healthy. All of these nutrients can be found in the nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods. Why the World's Healthiest Foods Should Be Your Foods of Choice The World's Healthiest Foods are among the most nutrient-rich foods in the world and therefore help promote optimal health by providing you with maximum nutrition and taste for the least number of calories. They ensure your body is receiving the necessary amount of nutrients it needs. Along with vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids they are concentrated in antioxidants and phytonutrients, which combat free radicals that can damage DNA and cellular structures, as well as act as powerful anti-inflammatory agents. We always recommend selecting nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods for our body to function optimally and inspire well-being. The Healthiest Way of Eating may help you enjoy more energy, strong bones, healthy skin, good sleep, and other aspects of optimal wellness. Alternatively, a diet that emphasizes nutrient-poor foods may lead to symptoms of nutrient deficiency: low energy, unhealthy skin, poor heart health, an inability to sleep, and reduced ability to cope with stress. Our List of World's Healthiest Foods highlights more than 100 foods, which I have selected to be among the world's healthiest after 40 years of traveling around the globe searching for the foods associated with cultures recognized for their exceptional health and longevity. For each food you will find a description of the food; how to select, store, prepare, and cook the food; its health benefits; and its nutritional profile. The list of World's Healthiest Foods helps you to select which of the nutrient-rich foods fit your personal tastes and nutritional needs. There may also be times when you are interested in increasing the intake of a particular nutrient. In that case click on the link to the -nutrient in which you are interested from our list of Essential Nutrients and find which of the World's Healthiest Foods is most concentrated in that particular nutrient. And every week we feature one of the World's Healthiest Foods on the home page—a food that is currently in season, a food that is currently in season when it has the best flavor and is the least expensive. [HWE-plan.jpg] Enjoy the World's Healthiest Foods in the Powerful Healthiest Way of Eating Plan You will love the foods in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan: sweet fruit, rich in antioxidants vitamins, minerals, and fiber; great tasting vegetables, rich in immune-boosting nutrients; crunchy fresh salads that are full of enzymes and alive with flavor; great omega-3-rich fish recipes; beans and legumes are rich in folate, protein, and fiber; and nuts and seeds that are great for snacks. For over 30 years I was told it would be impossible for food alone (without taking supplements) to supply enough nutrients to promote optimal health, but that's what the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan is all about. It supplies it with you with over 100% of most nutrients your body needs. Each nutrient has a specific role to play in the regeneration of the approximately 300 billion new cells created by our bodies each day! For these cells to be healthy, proper nutritional intake is a must. And because nutrients work synergistically, the Plan provides the variety of nutrient-rich foods nutrients to support the synergistic interaction of nutrients. The nutrients concentrated in the World's Healthiest Foods featured in the the Plan also provide anti-inflammatory protection for a healthier cardiovascular system and a stronger immune system as well as protection against the free radical activity that can damage cellular structures and DNA. The Plan provides over 100% Daily Value of many important nutrients from foods. These include: * Protein-rich foods that scientific studies have found to promote healthy skin, hair, and nails * Vitamin K-rich foods that scientific studies have found to promote the absorption of calcium and prevent osteoporosis * Vitamin A-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help support a healthy immune system, prevent frequent colds and flues, and promote healthy vision * Vitamin C-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help reduce free radical damage to cells. * Fiber-Rich Foods that scientific studies have found to help support the health of the digestive system * Folate-rich foods that scientific studies have found to help support cardiovascular health. And many more. . . . The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan Promotes Synergistic Interaction of Nutrients Nutrients do not work alone but in concert (synergistically) with other nutrients in foods. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan works to promote beneficial nutrient interaction and allows for the synergistic reactions between nutrients essential for optimal health. The benefit of deriving nutrients from eating fresh whole foods such as those included on the list of the World's Healthiest Foods is that they provide not only an abundance of individual nutrients but also the variety necessary for their optimal function. One good example of how the synergistic interaction between nutrients in foods works is in regards to bone health. The importance of calcium is almost always featured as the nutrient necessary for maintaining strong, healthy bones. The reality is that strong bones also need vitamins D and K, magnesium, and trace minerals like boron. All of these nutrients are not concentrated in one foods but in a combination of foods. Of course, milk and yogurt supply are great sources of calcium, green leafy vegetables provide you with vitamin K, and salmon is a wonderful source of those hard-to-find omega-3 fatty acids. So, as you can see by eating a range of delicious foods you'll enjoy great taste and promote better bone health. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan was designed to take the guesswork of healthy eating and make it fun, easy, and enjoyable. It provides a menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even snacks for 7 days. After following the Plan, you'll become a master on how to mix and match recipes so that you can enjoy delicious meals that will help you take control of your health. And you won't feel deprived or hungry because nutrients like fiber help keep you feeling satiated and satisfied. The Healthiest Way of Eating Plan Can Help Save You Money The Healthiest Way of Eating can save you money since it will inspire you to prepare more of your meals at home rather than buying take-out food or eating out at restaurants. By purchasing food on sale or sold at local farmers' markets you also save additional money. You can therefore purchase these powerful health-promoting foods for no more than what you are spending on food now if you eat healthy and even less if you regularly eat out. And they are much less expensive than supplements. Also when you take into consideration all of the health benefits derived from the Healthiest Way of Eating and the Plan you actually get more for your money because it provides you with health insurance that really works! In the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan you will learn how to get over 100% of most nutrients. The Healthiest Way of Eating Includes the New Healthiest Way of Cooking The Healthiest Way of Cooking is an integral part of the Healthiest Way of Eating. George was inspired to develop the Healthiest Way of Cooking (link to cooking) when he found that traditional cooking methods could lose up to 50-80% of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients found in food! To George that meant that even if he was purchasing the most nutrient-rich foods available, it was possible that he was not enjoying many of their health-promoting benefits because if the foods were not cooked properly he was not enjoying the full range of their nutrient potential. The new Healthiest Way of Cooking will take you out of the dark age of traditional cooking. You will discover how great vegetables can taste and how tenderizing their fibers by cooking them al dente helps release their naturally wonderful and complex flavors. We have long been aware that no matter how good a food is for you, no one will eat it if it doesn't taste good. That's why George placed equal importance on maximizing nutrition and taste when developing his Healthiest Way of Cooking. And because the Healthiest Way of Cooking is quick and easy, it is a perfect fit in today's busy lifestyle. To put George's cooking methods into practice WHFoods.org website provides you with at-home cooking demonstrations, WHFoods Kitchen, and an extensive library of hundreds of recipes , many of which you will find in the Healthiest Way of Eating Plan. From breakfast to dinner, soups to salads, vegetable side dishes to vegetable entrees, you can find delicious recipes that will entice your whole family and save you time and money. Most recipes can be prepared in 5 minutes or less using 3 or fewer ingredients! Using these recipes—such as 15-Minute Salmon, dinner salad with Mediterranean Dressing, 5-Minute Broccoli, and Blueberry Parfait — you can even learn how to prepare a 4-course meal in just 15 minutes! If you don't want to worry about what to prepare for a meal, we recommend you sign up for our free Weekly Newsletter and Daily Tips on the home page. Each day you will receive a Recipe of the Day that provides you with great ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. You will also receive a Q&A about a food or nutrition topic to help you learn more about The Healthiest Way of Eating. You can also learn more about our Healthiest Way of Cooking from George's new Healthiest Way of Cooking DVD and cookbook. A Lifestyle Change to The Healthiest Way of Eating Modern science now concurs that among all lifestyle factors, no single factor is more important to our health than the food we eat. According to healthcare experts, our best bet in avoiding chronic preventable disease rates does not lie in more expensive medical procedures, or in more sophisticated technology, or in further specialization with respect to testing and medication. Our best bet, experts agree, lies in the simple, everyday practice of a lifestyle change in the foods that we eat. We could be saving millions of lives and several hundred billion dollars in healthcare costs related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer if we would eat more health-promoting, nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest Foods—foods that the peer-reviewed medical research has already suggested may help prevent these diseases. Instead of spending more money and having more disease (our current situation), we would be spending less money and having less disease! What's also remarkable about the chronic preventable disease patterns described above is the degree to which they overlap when it comes to dietary prevention. Based on current research, we do not seem to need one diet for preventing heart disease, a second diet for preventing diabetes, a third diet for preventing obesity, and a fourth diet for preventing cancer. What seems to be needed in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases is that the changes in the foods we eat move in the same general direction: decreased intake of sugar, salt, animal fat, and processed foods, and increased intake of health-promoting, nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest Foods. Dietary prevention in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases calls for a greater focus on health-promoting foods and a healthier way of eating that can be followed and enjoyed day after day, year after year. Nutrient-rich foods like the World's Healthiest foods are the keys to a healthy lifestyle. It is the source of good health and energy. Following The Healthiest Way of Eating can benefit all of us. Eating more nutrient-rich foods, cooking them properly, and learning about how to create a better way of eating by following the Plan will help you feel stronger and healthier. You can have more energy, enjoy better sleep and less stress, and promote general optimal health. We have created this website to serve as a comprehensive resource that leaves you with no guessing about what you have to do to eat healthier. It offers you all the tools you'll need to make eating healthier an integral part of your healthy lifestyle. Testimonials about the Healthiest Way of Eating: I discovered your site and your list of the healthiest foods a few years back. It has been my blueprint for my Healthiest Way of Eating since then. - Annie I really enjoy your site and your Healthiest Way of Eating so much info in a concise form. I have little time to surf the web. 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Add them to your meals and get on the fast track to a super-healthy body. From the editors of Fitness Comments (0) Back [101265278.jpg?itok=XLkNJvdX] Healthy Food #1: Lemons [101173077_4.jpg?itok=Fcw5iGDZ] Healthy Food #2: Broccoli [101265247_1.jpg?itok=nZ-KnuBz] Healthy Food #3: Dark Chocolate [101265248_0.jpg?itok=alnbk6C6] Healthy Food #4: Potatoes [101098916_0.jpg?itok=M8coGCFZ] Healthy Food #5: Salmon [101265356_0.jpg?itok=1JP6fn68] Healthy Food #6: Walnuts [101252360_0.jpg?itok=X9eUUfaX] Healthy Food #7: Avocados [101135106_0.jpg?itok=E_b_p0gA] Healthy Food #8: Garlic Healthy Food #9: Spinach Healthy Food #10: Beans * ‹ Prev * next › * 1 of 11 | View All 1 * [101265278.jpg?itok=r-SGX33b] [default_image_361x361.png] Meike Bergmann/Jupiter Images Healthy Food #1: Lemons Why They're Healthy: — Just one lemon has more than 100 percent of your daily intake of vitamin C, which may help increase "good" HDL cholesterol levels and strengthen bones. — Citrus flavonoids found in lemons may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells and act as an anti-inflammatory. Quick Tip: Add a slice of lemon to your green tea. One study found that citrus increases your body's ability to absorb the antioxidants in the tea by about 80 percent. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101173077_4.jpg?itok=YFx8gGOR] [default_image_361x361.png] Thinkstock/Punchstock Healthy Food #2: Broccoli Why It's Healthy: — One medium stalk of broccoli contains more than 100 percent of your daily vitamin K requirement and almost 200 percent of your recommended daily dose of vitamin C — two essential bone-building nutrients. — The same serving also helps stave off numerous cancers. Quick Tip: Zap it! Preserve up to 90 percent of broccoli's vitamin C by microwaving. (Steaming or boiling holds on to just 66 percent of the nutrient.) Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265247_1.jpg?itok=tuHN5jT5] [default_image_361x361.png] Geoffrey Kidd/Alamy Healthy Food #3: Dark Chocolate Why It's Healthy: — Just one-fourth of an ounce daily can reduce blood pressure in otherwise healthy individuals. — Cocoa powder is rich in flavonoids, antioxidants shown to reduce "bad" LDL cholesterol and increase "good" HDL levels. Quick Tip: A dark chocolate bar contains about 53.5 milligrams of flavonoids; a milk chocolate bar has fewer than 14. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265248_0.jpg?itok=PQ8jpbI6] [default_image_361x361.png] D.Hurst/Alamy Healthy Food #4: Potatoes Why They're Healthy: — One red potato contains 66 micrograms of cell-building folate — about the same amount found in one cup of spinach or broccoli. — One sweet potato has almost eight times the amount of cancer-fighting and immune-boosting vitamin A you need daily. Quick Tip: Let your potato cool before eating. Research shows that doing so can help you burn close to 25 percent more fat after a meal, thanks to a fat-resistant starch. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101098916_0.jpg?itok=PoTjNj26] [default_image_361x361.png] FoodCollection.com Healthy Food #5: Salmon Why It's Healthy: — A great source of omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to a reduced risk of depression, heart disease, and cancer. — A 3-ounce serving contains almost 50 percent of your daily dose of niacin, which may protect against Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Quick Tip: Opt for wild over farm-raised, which contains 16 times as much toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) as wild salmon. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101265356_0.jpg?itok=9U4jnI_S] [default_image_361x361.png] Healthy Food #6: Walnuts Why They're Healthy: — Contain the most omega-3 fatty acids, which may help reduce cholesterol, of all nuts. — Omega-3s have been shown to improve mood and fight cancer; they may protect against sun damage, too (but don't skip the SPF!). Quick Tip: Eat a few for dessert: The antioxidant melatonin, found in walnuts, helps to regulate sleep. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101252360_0.jpg?itok=5h-B1ehD] [default_image_361x361.png] Tim Hill/Stockfood Healthy Food #7: Avocados Why They're Healthy: — Rich in healthy, satisfying fats proven in one study to lower cholesterol by about 22 percent. — One has more than half the fiber and 40 percent of the folate you need daily, which may reduce your risk of heart disease. Quick Tip: Adding it to your salad can increase the absorption of key nutrients like beta-carotene by three to five times compared with salads without this superfood. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * [101135106_0.jpg?itok=Yq-YfOg6] [default_image_361x361.png] Healthy Food #8: Garlic Why It's Healthy: — Garlic is a powerful disease fighter that can inhibit the growth of bacteria, including E. coli. — Allicin, a compound found in garlic, works as a potent anti-inflammatory and has been shown to help lower cholesterol and blood-pressure levels. Quick Tip: Crushed fresh garlic releases the most allicin. Just don't overcook; garlic exposed to high heat for more than 10 minutes loses important nutrients. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * Adam Albright Healthy Food #9: Spinach Why It's Healthy: — Spinach contains lutein and zeaxanthin, two immune-boosting antioxidants important for eye health. — Recent research found that among cancer-fighting fruits and veggies, spinach is one of the most effective. Quick Tip: Spinach is a healthy — and flavorless — addition to any smoothie. You won't taste it, we promise! Try blending 1 cup spinach, 1 cup grated carrots, 1 banana, 1 cup apple juice, and ice. Get 31 days of meals using these 10 superfoods! WIN a prize a day! Enter now! * Peter Ardito Healthy Food #10: Beans Why They're Healthy: — Eating a serving of legumes (beans, peas, and lentils) four times a week can lower your risk of heart disease by 22 percent. — That same habit may also reduce your risk of breast cancer. Quick Tip: The darker the bean, the more antioxidants it contains. One study found that black bean hulls contain 40 times the amount of antioxidants found in white bean hulls. 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SUBSCRIBE #publisher Authority Nutrition » Feed Authority Nutrition » Comments Feed Authority Nutrition » 15 “Health Foods” That Are Really Junk Foods in Disguise Comments Feed [logo.jpg] * Home * Meal Plans * Foods * Archives * About * Contact 15 “Health Foods” That Are Really Junk Foods in Disguise By Kris Gunnars | 421,938 views Girl Drinking Low Fat Dairy Unhealthy foods are the main reason the world is fatter and sicker than ever before. Surprisingly, some of these foods are considered healthy by many people. Here are 15 “health foods” that are really junk foods in disguise. 1. Processed “Low-Fat” and “Fat-Free” Foods The “war” on saturated fat is the biggest mistake in the history of nutrition. It was based on weak evidence, which has now been completely debunked (1). When this started, processed food manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon and started removing the fat from foods. But there’s a huge problem… food tastes horrible when the fat has been removed. That’s why they added a whole bunch of sugar to compensate. Saturated fat is harmless, but added sugar is incredibly harmful when consumed in excess (2, 3). The words “low-fat” or “fat-free” on a packaging usually mean that it is a highly processed product that is loaded with sugar. 2. Most Commercial Salad Dressings Salad Dressing Vegetables are incredibly healthy. The problem is that they often don’t taste very good on their own. That’s why many people use dressings to add flavour to their salads, turning these bland meals into delicious treats. But many salad dressings are actually loaded with unhealthy ingredients like sugar, vegetable oils and trans fats, along with a bunch of artificial chemicals. Although vegetables are good for you, eating them with a dressing high in harmful ingredients will totally negate any health benefit you get from the salad. Make sure to check the ingredients list before you use a salad dressing… or make your own using healthy ingredients. 3. Fruit Juices… Which Are Basically Just Liquid Sugar Young Woman Drinking Orange Juice A lot of people believe fruit juices to be healthy. They must be… because they come from fruit, right? But a lot of the fruit juice you find in the supermarket isn’t really fruit juice. Sometimes there isn’t even any actual fruit in there, just chemicals that taste like fruit. What you’re drinking is basically just fruit-flavored sugar water. That being said, even if you’re drinking 100% quality fruit juice, it is still a bad idea. Fruit juice is like fruit, except with all the good stuff (like the fiber) taken out… the main thing left of the actual fruit is the sugar. If you didn’t know, fruit juice actually contains a similar amount of sugar as a sugar-sweetened beverage (4). [INS: :INS] 4. “Heart Healthy” Whole Wheat Most “whole wheat” products aren’t really made from whole wheat. The grains have been pulverized into very fine flour, making them raise blood sugar just as fast as their refined counterparts. Man With a Stack of Bread Slices In fact, whole wheat bread can have a similar glycemic index as white bread (5). But even true whole wheat may be a bad idea… because modern wheat is unhealthy compared to the wheat our grandparents ate. Around the year 1960, scientists tampered with the genes in wheat to increase the yield. Modern wheat is less nutritious and has some properties that make it much worse for people who are intolerant to gluten (6, 7, 8). There are also studies showing that modern wheat may cause inflammation and increased cholesterol levels, at least when compared to the older varieties (9, 10). Whereas wheat may have been a relatively healthy grain back in the day, the stuff most people are eating today is best avoided. 5. Cholesterol Lowering Phytosterols Broken Heart There are certain nutrients called phytosterols, which are basically like plant versions of cholesterol. Some studies have shown that they can lower blood cholesterol in humans (11). For this reason, they are often added to processed foods that are then marketed as “cholesterol lowering” and claimed to help prevent heart disease. However, studies have shown that despite lowering cholesterol levels, phytosterols have adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and may even increase the risk of heart disease and death (12, 13, 14). 6. Margarine Toasted Bread With Margarine Butter was demonized back in the day, due to the high saturated fat content. Various health experts started promoting margarine instead. Back in the day, margarine used to be high in trans fats. These days, it has less trans fats than before but is still loaded with refined vegetable oils. Margarine is not food… it is an assembly of chemicals and refined oils that have been made to look and taste like food. Not surprisingly, the Framingham Heart Study showed that people who replace butter with margarine are actually more likely to die from heart disease (15). If you want to improve your health, eat real butter (preferably grass-fed) but avoid processed margarine and other fake foods like the plague. Recommending trans fat laden margarine instead of natural butter may just be the worst nutrition advice in history. 7. Sports Drinks Man With Sports Drink, Smaller Sports drinks were designed with athletes in mind. These drinks contain electrolytes (salts) and sugar, which can be useful for athletes in many cases. However… most regular people don’t need any additional salts, and they certainly have no need for liquid sugar. Although often considered “less bad” than sugary soft drinks, there really is no fundamental difference except that the sugar content is sometimes slightly lower. It is important to stay hydrated, especially around workouts, but most people will be better off sticking to plain water. 8. Low-Carb Junk Foods Atkins Bar Low carb diets have been incredibly popular for many decades now. In the past 12 years, study after study has confirmed that these diets are an effective way to lose weight and improve health (16, 17). However… food manufacturers have caught up on the trend and brought various low-carb “friendly” processed foods to the market. This includes highly processed junk foods like the Atkins bars. If you take a look at the ingredients list, you see that there is NO real food in there, just chemicals and highly refined ingredients. These products can be consumed occasionally without compromising the metabolic adaptation that comes with low-carb eating. But they don’t really nourish your body… even though they’re technically low-carb, they’re still unhealthy. 9. Agave Nectar Syrup Given the known harmful effects of sugar, people have been looking for alternatives. One of the more popular “natural” sweeteners is Agave nectar, also called agave syrup. You will find this sweetener in all sorts of “health foods,” often with attractive claims on the packaging. The problem with Agave is that it is no better than sugar. In fact, it is much, much worse… One of the main problems with sugar is that it has excessive amounts of fructose, which can cause severe metabolic problems when consumed in excess (18). Whereas sugar is about 50% fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup about 55%, Agave contains even more… up to 70-90%. Therefore, gram for gram, Agave is even worse than regular sugar. See, “natural” doesn’t always equal healthy… and whether Agave should even be considered natural is debatable. [INS: :INS] 10. Vegan Junk Foods Brown Tofu Vegan diets are very popular these days, often due to ethical and environmental reasons. However… many people promote vegan diets for the purpose of improving health (which is questionable). There are many processed vegan foods on the market, often sold as convenient replacements for non-vegan foods. Vegan bacon is one example. But it’s important to keep in mind that these are usually highly processed, factory made products that are bad for just about anyone, including vegans. 11. Brown Rice Syrup Pastry Chef With Syrup Brown rice syrup (also known as rice malt syrup) is a sweetener that is mistakenly assumed to be healthy. This sweetener is made by exposing cooked rice to enzymes that break down the starch into simple sugars. Brown rice syrup contains no refined fructose, just glucose. The absence of refined fructose is good… but rice syrup has a glycemic index of 98, which means that the glucose in it will spike blood sugar extremely fast (19). Rice syrup is also highly refined and contains almost no essential nutrients. In other words, it is “empty” calories. Some concerns have been raised about arsenic contamination in this syrup, another reason to be extra careful with this sweetener (20). There are other better sweeteners out there… including low-calorie sweeteners like stevia, erythritol and xylitol, which actually have some health benefits. 12. Processed Organic Foods Granola Bars Unfortunately, the word “organic” has become just like any other marketing buzzword. Food manufacturers have found all sorts of ways to make the same junk, except with ingredients that happen to be organic. This includes ingredients like organic raw cane sugar, which is basically 100% identical to regular sugar. It’s still just glucose and fructose, with little to no nutrients. In many cases, the difference between an ingredient and its organic counterpart is next to none. Processed foods that happen to be labelled organic are not necessarily healthy. Always check the label to see what’s inside. 13. Vegetable Oils Bottles of Vegetable Oil We are often advised to eat seed- and vegetable oils. This includes soybean oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil and numerous others. This is based on the fact that these oils have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels, at least in the short term (21). However… it’s important to keep in mind that blood cholesterol is a risk factor, NOT a disease in itself. Even though vegetable oils can improve a risk factor, there is no guarantee that they will help prevent actual hard end points like heart attacks or death, which is what really counts. In fact, several controlled trials have shown that despite lowering cholesterol, these oils can increase the risk of death… from both heart disease and cancer (22, 23, 24). So eat healthy, natural fats like butter, coconut oil and olive oil, but avoid processed vegetable oils as if your life depended on it (it does). 14. Gluten-Free Junk Foods Woman Wondering Whether to Eat Muffin According to a 2013 survey, about a third of people in the U.S. are actively trying to avoid gluten. A lot of experts think this is unnecessary… but the truth is that gluten, especially from modern wheat, can be problematic for a lot of people (25). Not surprisingly, the food manufacturers have brought all sorts of gluten-free foods to the market. The problem with these foods, is that they are usually just as bad as their gluten-containing counterparts, if not worse. These are highly processed foods that are very low in nutrients and often made with refined starches that lead to very rapid spikes in blood sugar. So… choose foods that are naturally gluten free, like plants and animals, NOT gluten free processed foods. Gluten-free junk food is still junk food. [INS: :INS] 15. Most Processed Breakfast Cereals The way some breakfast cereals are marketed is a disgrace. Many of them, including those that are marketed towards children, have all sorts of health claims plastered on the box. This includes misleading things like “whole grain” or “low fat.” But… when you actually look at the ingredients list, you see that it’s almost nothing but refined grains, sugar and artificial chemicals. The truth is, if the packaging of a food says that it is healthy, then it probably isn’t. The truly healthy foods are those that don’t need any health claims… whole, single ingredient foods. Real food doesn’t even need an ingredients list, because real food IS the ingredient. Related Articles * Overweight Man Pouring Ketchup on a Hamburger 11 Graphs That Show Everything That is Wrong With The Modern Diet * Young Woman Thinking About a Muffin Why is Fructose Bad For You? 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Home › 2. Issues › 3. Healthy Food in Health Care Healthy Food in Health Care The Healthy Food in Health Care program harnesses the purchasing power and expertise of the health care sector to advance the development of a sustainable food system. Through advocacy, and education, we motivate facilities to implement programs that explicitly connect all aspects of the food system with health. We catalyze sustainable procurement efforts, create clinician advocates, and inspire health care institutions to become leaders in shaping a food system that supports prevention-based health care. Who We Are Healthy Food in Health Care (HFHC) is a national initiative of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), developed in conjunction with its member organizations. We work with hospitals across the country to help improve the sustainability of their food services. Founded in 2005, the program provides education, tools, resources, and support to health care facilities, making the connection between the health of patients, staff and community and the food they serve. The HFHC program is led by a team of allies from HCWH member organizations around the country, as well as independent contractors that provide issue-driven expertise. Find a HFHC organizer in your region. The HFHC program also helps to coordinate the Healthier Food Challenge of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI), a national sustainability initiative for the healthcare sector. Several of our programs, such as the Balanced Menus, Local & Sustainable Purchasing and Healthy Beverages are embedded in HHI. What We Do The program aims to leverage the significant purchasing power and health expert status of hospitals to promote a healthier food system. 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Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction centre in the brains of a small group of men and women. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, whole wheat pasta.” End Quote Prof Susan B Roberts Tufts University The results showed increased cravings for healthy lower-calorie foods. Prof Susan B Roberts, senior study author and behavioural nutrition scientist at the Boston university, said: "We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, wholewheat pasta. "This conditioning happens over time in response to eating - repeatedly - what is out there in the toxic food environment." Scientists know that once people are addicted to unhealthy foods, it is usually very hard to change their eating habits and get them to lose weight. But Prof Roberts' research, published in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes, suggests the brain can learn to like healthy foods. They studied the part of the brain linked to reward and addiction in 13 overweight and obese men and women, eight of whom were taking part in a specially designed weight-loss programme. MRI scan of the brain Scans of the brain's reward centre showed that food preferences had changed This focused on changing food preferences by prescribing a diet high in fibre and protein, and low in carbohydrates, but which did not allow participants to become hungry because this is when food cravings take over and unhealthy food becomes attractive. The other five adults were not part of the weight-loss programme. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote There is much more research to be done here, involving many more participants and long-term follow-up.” End Quote Prof Susan Roberts When their brains were scanned using MRI at the start and end of a six-month period, those following the programme showed changes in the brain's reward centre. When participants were shown pictures of different types of food, it was the healthy, low-calorie foods which produced an increased reaction. The study said this indicated an increased reward and enjoyment of healthier food. The brain's reward centre also showed decreased sensitivity to the unhealthy, higher-calorie foods. The Boston researchers say that gastric bypass surgery, while solving the problem of weight loss, can take away food enjoyment rather than make healthier foods more appealing. "There is much more research to be done here, involving many more participants, long-term follow-up and investigating more areas of the brain," Prof Roberts said. 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The results are surprising. Many of the chains that have built their entire marketing campaigns around their better-for-you food weren’t customer picks. I’m thinking in particular of the “eat fresh” mantra at Subway Subway, one chain consumers didn’t single out as healthiest. Where do customers say they’re eating healthy? Here’s are consumers’ picks: The 9 Fastest-Growing Fast-Food Restaurant Chains 1. Jamba Jamba Juice — There are plenty of smoothie chains out there, but Jamba won customers’ vote with its “better for you” positioning and line of nutritious smoothies. 2. Jason’s Deli — This chain is one of the top per-unit revenue generators in fast food, driven by its menu of gluten-free, vegetarian, and organic sandwiches and soups. 3. McAlister’s Deli — Gluten-free and the option to get half-sandwiches are among the options that won consumers over. 4. Cheesecake Factory — Who’d a thunk this one? With its enormous cheesecake slices, this chain made its name on pig-out desserts, but since 2011 has been plugging its Skinnylicious menu of smaller-portioned salads, wraps, and rolls. 5. Bonefish Grill — Grilled fish always sounds low-cal, doesn’t it? 6. Bahama Breeze Island Grill — Apparently some customers are staying away from those calorie-rich tropical drinks and sticking to the seafood here. But are they really the best? Those are the chains customers chose as healthiest — but not necessarily the eateries that offer the healthiest menus overall. Health magazine had a panel of nutrition experts analyze the menus of the top 100 chains, and their top 10 list is almost completely different. Of the consumer picks, only Jason’s Deli made their cut. Their rankings: 1. Panera Bread topped the list with a broad menu of healthy soups and sandwiches. 2. Jason’s Deli is praised for whole-grain wraps and organic fillings. 3. Au Bon Pain ranked high for its low-cal soups. 4. Noodles & Co., which recently went public, won points for whole-grain pastas and sauteeing in healthy soybean oil. 5. Corner Bakery Cafe has low-cal roasted chicken and omelets. 6. Chipotle’s commitment to organics and local sourcing earned it kudos. 7. Atlanta Bread won points for whole-grain breads and selling lower-calorie muffin tops instead of calorie-bomb, giant muffins. 8. McDonald's McDonald's may be known as the home of fatty fries, but it’s also got low-fat yogurt parfaits and some tasty salads. 9. Einstein Bros. Bagels got kudos for low-fat spreads and high-fiber bagels. 10. Taco Del Mar bakes its taco shells and fish rather than frying, among other fat-cutting moves. I’m fascinated that once again, Subway does not turn up on this list. Regional delis Jason’s and McAlister’s appear to be gaining on Subway in low-fat reputation. The only segment where consumers named Subway their healthy-eating pick is “matures,” diners born before 1945. An older customer base doesn’t bode well for future trends at Subway. Comparing Health‘s list with the customer picks, it appears many bakeries suffer from a perception-versus-reality problem, where customers think of the deli-sandwich sector as healthier — though judging from the mile-high stacks of lunch meat some delis put on their sandwiches, I’m not sure that’s accurate. Viewed by many as a place to pig out on carbs, bakery chains are striving to be healthier and offering low-call food — but customers don’t “get” it yet. McDonald’s, of course, continues to struggle mightily against public perception of it as a calorie-rich burger brand. The bottom line here: the days when all restaurant food was a diet disaster are over. There are plenty of healthy restaurant meals diners could choose. Now, all we have to do is skip that giant Panera brownie or enormous slice of mud pie cheesecake at Cheesecake Factory, and we could make some headway in cutting calories. Based on the state of America’s waistlines, and how many healthy choices we now have, we can’t blame the chains — it’s our own lack of self-control. 1 comments, 0 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Print Report Corrections Reprints & Permissions Million-Dollar Burger -- The Most Lucrative Fast-Food Restaurants Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor What You'll Eat Next: Tasty Food Trends For 2014 Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor 4 Threats That Could Spell The End Of Cheap Fast Food Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor 10 Ways Technology Will Rock Your Dining Experience In 2014 Carol Tice Carol Tice Contributor Post Your Comment Cancel reply Post Your Reply Please log in or sign up to comment. 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Click here Don't Miss * Wall Street Diet Review * Juice Diet Review * The Cheater’s Diet Review * HCG Diet Review * A Diet Without Vegetables – Is It Possible? * * * * * ____________________ Home > Weight loss > 20 Healthy Foods that Turned Out to Be Unhealthy 20 Healthy Foods that Turned Out to Be Unhealthy Share on Facebook Tweet Google +1 bigstock-Muesli-Bars-44898367 Photo credit: Bigstock 1. Muesli Many people make the move from consuming sugary cereals or fatty fried breakfasts to eating a portion of muesli in the mornings. This is no surprise, as muesli is often specifically marketed to the health-conscious crowd. You may be dismayed, however, to learn that the type of muesli that you can find in most stores is actually quite bad for your body if you are trying to shed fat or maintain a healthy weight. Specifically, muesli often provides as many as 500 calories per serving, has a high fat content, and contains an unacceptable amount of added sugar. You’d be better off eating fresh fruit or even a plain doughnut. If you hate the idea of giving up muesli, but are committed to eating healthily, the best thing that you can do is make your own muesli. To make muesli, you need buy oats, sunflower seeds, a small amount of dried fruit, and some macadamia nuts (though you should be conservative when adding the fruit and nuts in order to keep the sugar and fat content of your muesli under control). With a serving of fat free milk, this homemade muesli will give you the fuel you need to start your day without causing your blood sugar levels to skyrocket. 1 of 22 Also popular * fustian24 Fat and proteins are great for dieters. Sugars and grains aren’t. When will you people get the message? + deb_gib Too much protein is very _unhealthy_ for anyone ( animal protein is especially hard on one’s kidneys ). The “good” fats are what one can benefit from , stay completely away from the LDL fats. Sugar in any form is very bad for humans in anything more than a small amount as it raises the blood sugar sharply and creates a steep “crash” which then requires the person to have more sugar to get out of the crash ,’wash, rinse,repeat’. Limited serving sizes and servings of fruit are best to keep blood sugar within the healthy boundaries .Fruit does not fill up and sustain a full feeling in one’s stomach which leads to snacking and overeating. Carb counting is also necessary to keep control of one’s weight and general health. The carb to fiber content ratio in food is important. (see:carb formula). Red Dwarf Short Wheat (White flour !) is the evil demon of our society. All breads and cereals contain RDSWheat (even canned soup contains white flour for thickening,etc.), it turns to poison in the human body. Grains are very _good_ for anyone, in a variety of ways. You really need to educate yourself about grains, your ignorance is blinding. Quinoa, millet, teff, spelt,brown rice etc. are all very healthy and high in fiber and nutrition. o fustian24 I will grant you that there are grains that are better and worse for you, but having grain be a major portion of your diet is still probably a bad idea. And Quinoa isn’t even a true grain. o pbrower2a We really should eat less mammal meat. We should not eat meals perfectly suited to the family dog, let alone the cat. We are apes — not dogs. o http://www.theenglishrag.com/ Tony Butler However, the artificial sweeteners Aspartame, and the GM corn syrup concoctions cause a craving carbohydrates, and create fat to be retained by the body. + Looli When it becomes true. + John Wheeler Not only great for dieters, also better choices for diabetics. Carbohydrates cause blood glucose levels to spike. That goes for fast carb and so-called slow carbs. They’re all carbohydrates, in other words, sugar. + Proud Skeptic True Dat. I always feel best and am at my best weight when I’m on Atkins. + Lil Because we know that places where people eat lots of fresh fruit (which contains sugar) are fat as holy f***. And those Japanese and Koreans who eat a lot of white rice? All that rice, they’re fatasses. Oh wait, they’re some of the most slender people on planet earth in 1st world countries. Not saying fat and protein aren’t GREAT, but everything in moderation, except water and green veggies (which you can pretty much eat an unlimited amount of without harm, provided you listen to your body and don’t try to drown yourself or stuff yourself stupid) + Briton I was just wondering the same thing. If I hear “be careful of saturated fat because it raises your cholesterol” on more god damn time… + Robyn Complex carbs are the body’s first and main source of immediate energy. Complex carbs are processed into glycogen which is stored in the muscles and liver. Glycogen does not convert to fat. The fat you eat is the fat that directly inhabits your cells and blocks insulin as well as non-fat soluble nutrient absorption. Excess protein is proven over and over AND over again to be a direct cause of breast, colorectal, and kidney cancer. When will you protein and fat promoters start taking physiology classes and learn how the human body functions? The high-fat, high-protein fad is helping to strengthen the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the US and Europe. The world’s populations that depend on rice, potatoes, legumes and other grains are proven to be the world’s healthiest populations. o Trillstar Is there a healthy population that subsists on sugar? + JaiGuru I disagree with the grains bit. Whole grains, including healthy doses of flax seed have routinely mad ea huge difference in my weight loss efforts. I more or less always experience better results in switching to whole grains than by removing that form of carb entirely. Remember folks: You need servings of ALL the macro nutrients. Attempting to cut one out is bad at best, and potentially dangerous. Anyone telling you to cut one out does not know what they’re talking about. Carbohydrates/fats/proteins NEVER = bad. + Randy Two ways: 1:Advertisers and big companies (with agendas to sell you unhealthy, cheap foods for larger profits) will be legislated against and forced to comply with new laws disallowing any form of “creative advertising” (read: Lying). 2: People will try it for themselves and see that as long as Intake < Output, they will lose weight. I personally have lost 21kg on a high-fat, no carb/sugar diet. Unfortunately, what we'll see instead of a variety of supposedly reputable scientists (who are getting paid to support whichever theory at the time) telling us entirely different things, and we'll see more and more fad diets. + Michele I think the important thing to remember is “healthy fats” in moderation. By healthy fats I mean things like an avocado, walnuts, and almonds, etc and not cookies and cupcakes. So many people want to believe it’s still okay to slather things in butter and cheese. Then they wonder why they are over weight and have health issues. I don’t see the reason in arguing about food here. I ask myself when I purchase something… would my grandmother recognize this as food? People born in the 1920’s (aka grandparents and now great grandparents if they took care of themselves) ate a lot more vegetables than what most people do today. They ate a LOT less sugar. Their food didn’t have any of the chemicals (dyes, pesticides, and preservatives) that it has today. Nothing came out of a box pretty much. My grandmother had a sweet tooth but otherwise ate the same food, never out of a box ever day and lived to 88. She only died because she was a smoker and had complications. Her mother died at 92. They ate balanced meals with proteins, healthy fats and minimal carbohydrates. Knowing these things is not the challenge… resisting the yummy temptations is! + Fred Johnson Animal protein is bad for everyone. A whole food plant based diet is the only healthy way to go. * Adam Perpetuating the old lie that saturated fat leads to elevated cholesterol. When will they get it right. Sat at doesn’t increase cholesterol leading to diabetes, diabetes causes damage to blood vessels and the cholesterol level rises to repair the damage. If you want to lose weight eat mostly fresh or lightly steamed fruits and vegetables with some protein. it doesn’t even have to be lean or fat free although I would skip the deep frier. + Kaitensatsuma Actually, if you want to lose weight, Move Your Ass. + sleat Very true. The agenda is to keep us addicted to corn syrup and white flour. Wouldn’t mind fried chicken if it was light on the breading (fried salty chicken-skin instead)…and fried in coconut oil! But could just as easily go an eggs benedict with smoked salmon, spinach, and hollandaise! Yum! * Rachel Well the good news is that I haven’t eaten anything on this list in ten years or more. I was considering trying the cereal but if I have to make it myself then why bother? * adfljkafklj Sushi’s unhealthy? Japan still tops in life expectancy at an average of 83 years old. + matt227 Just tuna. I wouldn’t eat it more than twice a week. In time I even think its mercury content will be labelled by law. o newsmom4968 and with the leakage of radioactive stuff from fukushima, i suspect we should be on high alert for fish caught in japanese waters.. + Marco Contrary to popular belief, sushi and sashimi do not form the mainstay of the average Japanese person’s diet. Fish (together with rice) is the mainstay, but it is not always raw and comprises of a whole host of species other than tuna. + jdege Japan is healthy because they eat Natto, which is rich in K2. The French are healthy beacause they eat full-fat cheeses from grass-fed cows, which are rich in K2. Americans are not healthy, because when we eat animal fat, it’s from grain-fed animals, so we’re all K2 deficient, and so we get calcium deposiiting in our arteries instead of our bones. o san san A very nicely precised answer! * Mercura Sunglasses Zero fat Fage Greek yogurt with Spectrum Ground flaxseed with berries and plain apple sauce is my favorite high protein right fat delicious mix! * Tal Heathful/Unheathful. If they were healthy, they would be alive. * doctorzombe I would rather give up a year of my life than do without Ahi. * JCW43 The quickest, easiest, healthiest, and tastiest salad dressing ever is simply a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil to lightly coat your greens and veges, then a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and toss lightly. Try it. You will love it. + deb_gib Don’t be such a know-it -all, just because you “love ” it doesn’t mean everyone will like it or tolerate it well. By the way, you didn’t ‘invent’ oil & lemon on salad. * Gary Fischman The part about energy bars is bunk. I’ve never seen one with 500 calories. Most are under 300. Next time do a little research! The rest of what you say is valid. * newsmom4968 and too little exercise! * IvonaPoyntz Making own muesli not a bad idea. * Scott So to sum it up – everything you eat in unhealthy * gary kaposta Skim milk is more fattening than fully fatted milk. Glycemic index skim…32….whole…..27!!! Eat healthy fat with every meal,,,30% of fat intake should be saturated(Nothing fried/hydrogenated), Fat slows the time(Transient time)it takes for carbohydrates(…the body converts all carbohydrates…fruits, vegetables and starches into sugar) to convert into glucose thus limiting the production of the fat storing hormone insulin. + mike932 or just eat fiber with skim milk * Grey Define for me the word “pedant” + alfred ferguson A pedant is one who “pays too much attention” (Webster’s Collegiate) to “book learning”. However, I think that you can’t learn “too much” from “books”–beats hell out of the potential whips and scorns and, occasionally, fatalities of literal experience–which, of course, is essential and instructive as well as complementary. * Joe Smith Make sure you point which brands to get and where yo can get these brands. Recipes would be nice sometimes instead of branding everything. * LindsyLoo Saturated fat has now found to be ok. In fact research shows it can prevent heart disease. We need to eat fats (not hydrogenated or vegetable oils) and cut out carbs and garins. keep up with the health research by medical doctors and you will find this is true. * Mia Rabovsky the whole “make your own at home” message is the only good part about this article. otherwise, i think it tries to scare people away from too many foods. i was appalled that they think mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna is a serious concern. i mean ya it does happen, but you have to be eating tuna or swordfish or mackrel or yellowtails at least 7 days per week or more for that to happen to you. seriously if more people ate fish – we would all be much healthier! * Keepin_it_simple If you have a regular exercise routine you can ignore this article. Carb counting is not the answer. Push up counting on the other hand…. Honestly, starting an exercise routine is all you need. You will learn/want to be more healthy with your food choices as you progress. The body needs to sweat or it’ll become toxic. It’s as simple as that. It’s like changing the oil in a car, regularly. + Rich It’s so true, so many of these “health” articles are focused almost entirely on calories, and that’s not all there is to it. Fact is, you can get away with a lot of this stuff if you have a regular exercise routine. Also, I really don’t like that “energy bars” on here. Why? Because I’m pretty sure I never thought of them as being “healthy” food, but just food.. to give you energy.. they’re good for keeping up your energy if you’re, say, going for a ridiculously long walk or something, for which you need the calories. But have they ever really been considered as a way to lose weight? + just me sweating is only a way of cooling down ,the liver kidneys and spleen will help stop your body from becoming toxic (septicemia) its not necessary to sweat when exercising but it is necessary to get “puffed” breathing deeply getting the heart pumping for at least 30 mins 2/3 times a week * SoitDroitFait They actually did a study a while back where they put three groups on 1500 calorie diets made up of 90% fats, 90% proteins, and 90% carbohydrates. In a week, the first group lost a couple pounds, the second group lost a little less than the first, and the third group actually gained weight. So, yes, eating carbs will make you put on fat, even with a controlled calorie diet. + Guest holy crap. THIS is where the “confusions” come in…. NO BODY is identical to the guy next to them. so, OF COURSE….. in that study “some” people will lose weight and “some” will gain. no one can eat the exact same diet as another person and expect identical results. that’s no confusion what so ever. But the same is true of the ice-cream diet. the pure psyllium-husk diet. or the pure-butter diet. if you level the playing field by caloric content alone. that only makes perfect sense. You CAN…. “lose weight” eating ice cream….. (OR by eating absolutely nothing) that would work , also……. :-/ * dan its not correct to label high calorie foods as dangerous or unhealthy…a calorie surplus is what makes you gain fat. Everything has calories and also everyone knows eating fat doesent necessarily make you fat. Fat has 9 cals per gram and carbs and protein have 4 per gram, so it could make you gain fat more easily but at the end of the day like i said its down to a calorie balance. * Dorian A lot of what they describe is only correct with an “if” attached, so mutli grain products do not have to be highly processed for instance, if they are then of course they are unhealthy. Fats do make you fat. They are calories and they make you fat. The MYTH they do not (and it is a myth, definitely and unequivocally) is because of the Atkins diet. + mookow I am so sick of people saying “a calorie is a calorie” and that there is no difference in weight gain or loss from the type of calorie consumed. Gasoline contains 11 calories per gram. If I drink gasoline, I’m going to gain more weight then if I were to eat the equivalent weight of carbs or fat? A car engine works because of the calories (energy) stored in the gasoline, which are released as heat to power the engine. You know what has a higher energy density than gasoline? Magnesium metal. Instead of putting higher octane fuel in the car, go throw some magnesium shavings into your gas tank. I’m sure you will get more miles to the gallon that way! To be oblivious to the fact that the body reacts differently to different types of foods you put in is equivalent to saying taking 100 milligrams of morphine is going to do nothing but give you one calorie of energy. + sleat If you eat 100 calories worth of coconut oil, or 100 calories of pasta, I’ll guarantee that you won’t want as much more food after the coconut oil, as you do after eating the pasta. It’s an empirical, biological fact! * just me! the best ,easiest, most healthiest ,cheapest way of losing weight ,which EVERYONE can do ,including diabetics…is just eat …LESS!! that’s all there is to it , there is no magic formula and no quick fix, all that is needed is “willpower” ..and that’s free,,,there is one instance where fat is an absolute necessity ,as part of one’s diet ,Vitamin D require’s this to help it’s absorption in to our system , this seriously applies to M.S sufferer’s where their need for Vitamin D , is approximately 3/4 times more then normal circumstances * Byron C Mayes The problem here is that the article keeps equating “unhealthy” with “inappropriate for weight loss.” They aren’t the same thing. Even the best “energy bars” aren’t designed for weight loss. They’re designed to provide an energy boost — usually high caloric — to someone who needs it for working out, sports, heavy lifting, or other calorie-burning activity. You’re certainly not going to lose weight by eating an energy bar — or pretty much anything else — and then sitting on your butt for hours. Besides, not everyone wants to lose weight. Some want to gain and build muscle, some want to maintain, and some just want to remain “in good health.” None of that necessarily means losing weight. + Stevie Mac If the article is right that there is shitloads of sugar in energy bars, they’ve got a good case its unhealthy. * rogern1967 Oh no…..we are all going to die!!!!! * melbeetoast Fat isn’t bad for you. Lots of things that are high in fat are healthy: avocados, nuts, coconuts, etc. Fat in food making you fat is a myth. Just don’t eat processed junk and get most of your sugars from fresh fruits. Also exercise. It’s not rocket science. * FMaz The comments on energy bar miss the point of what Energy bar are for: Energy bar are a supplement in … Energy (aka. Calories). You’re not suppose to take them when you want to loose weight, but when you have trouble eating enought for the energy you’re spending… so it avoid loosing weight, muscle mass, or feeling dizzy. I’ve yet to see fat maraton runners. Their weight is not a problem for them because they spend huge amount of calories (aka Energy). An energy bar that have few calories is useless. I want my energy bar to be packed with sugar (fast energy) and calories for “long term”. I don’t want to fill my stomac with too much food, so I don’t feel sick while running, and I also want potasium, to help avoiding cramps. If I could take something the size of a Chewing gum that would give me 2000 calories and have a good share of Carbohydrate (sugar), it would be the perfect Energy supplement. A cofee and an energy bar are 2 very differents things. “Energy drink” are often more like cofee, and have a completely different purpose. An energy drink don’t keep you awake with “Energy”, neither does a cofee. * Ranlyn You are totally right! + ThirdEyeOpen Finally people have opened their eyes! Grains and mass sugar is exactly what should be limited in our diets. Fats and proteins are the way forward. Obese people tend to rarely have fresh meat or the correct fats, and they should diet properly not with all this low fat&wholegrain stuff. o Rebecca White Well I know that I gain weight when I have too much fat, and having inflammatory problems, if I eat too much protein it makes everything ache and makes my allergies bad. Also I have diabetes and too much protein is not good for diabetics because digesting proteins is hard on the kidneys and diabetics have to watch out for their kidneys. The answer as to why Atkins works for some people (for awhile, I’ve never known anybody who it worked for in the long run because people don’t stay on it and it makes them feel like sh*t)) is that it makes you sick. You are not getting proper nutrition. You are not getting your vitamins and minerals and anti-oxidents. Sick people lose weight. Now when I don’t eat very much fat and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and enough healthy carbohydrates to curb the hunger (potatoes, whole grains, pasta, even white pasta) I lose weight. I don’t eat meat or dairy and I feel absolute wonderful. That’s enough proof for me. The whole high protein thing is nonsense. Nobody but anorexics ever have a protein deficiency. You can lose weight and be sick and feel terrible, or you can lose weight and be healthy and feel good. I prefer the latter, thanks. # Sylvie sounds like you need to heal your gut in the first place that actually is the cause for all your health issues . what caused that was excess sugar and carbs (so you developed diabetes) and processed/junk food. you most likely have systemic yeast (so much toxins from dying off yeast that you developed allergies from overloaded kidneys/liver with dead yeast toxins) and most likely a bunch of other digestive symptoms you’ve had for years. sounds like you have ‘leaky gut’ -perforated digestive tract-and symptoms caused by the immune system reacting to undigested food that gets in the blood stream thru your perforated digestive tract. because of all the toxins you most likely have toxic kidney/liver overload and cant process protein for that reason. You have to change your diet and heal your gut first. For sure you are not going to do that by eating refined carbs/sugar that caused your issues in the first place. Lots of learning for you :) Good luck. @ brimstonesacrifice . Are you Rebecca’s doctor? Are you her nutritionist? You assume to know what type of diabetes she has. Assuming and giving advice is DANGEROUS. @ Sylvie i’m not diagnosing ANYTHING. You don’t understand what im saying at all. Understanding the mechanism of getting sick is key and that’s what i did. Healing of gut -that applies to most people that are ill with anything, and for sure to those with any ‘autoimmune’ issues. Changing your food to get healthy is always a step #1. So why don’t you re-read what i wrote and try to understand it :) @ LCDR USN Ret Some folks never let the facts get in the way of a good harangue! Makes them feel special. @ Kimberly Lira How do you heal your gut? @ Sylvie with the right food Kimberly. no other way. Gluten is a huge culprit as it permeates gut and undigested food get into the blood stream causing huge issues. This is really simplifying it- but it all is actually very simple: key changes: no sugar, no flours, nothing from cans, nothing processed. Eat only natural food -as nature made it- buy only from perimeter of a grocery store and go cook it all yourself. Eat meats, fats, butter, sour cream, eggs, some veggies, nuts. Little fruit. Use sea salt, we need good salt. Drink water(only when thirsty), tea, coffee is fine. Its all very simple. After 2-3 weeks you will not believe the difference. It’s ALL about the food. cheers @ http://www.stephenjones.biz/ Stephen Jones I wouldn’t necessarily dis the fruit, because the purple and blues and reds are SO very nutritious, but the amount of fructose is the main concern. For many reasons we all need to keep our blood sugar as low as possible before and after we eat, and also because we don’t want to feed the candida and other yeasts in our gut. The health benefits of fruit is so great that it is in my opinion, worth checking into products like Juice Plus or other similar organic fruit extracts that give you all the benefit, but without the fructose. ~ Peace! @ Sylvie you right. thats why i said ‘little fruit’. i think each person needs to judge how they FEEL after eating fruit. e.i. – i cant tolerate higher sugar fruit like apples, grapes and for sure i cant eat fruit AFTER meals. My stomach feels awful – bloated and gassy. I think we need to get back in touch how the food makes us feel as well. The best way to tell- A GOOD DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE FELT OR HEARD. :)) @ Arcanek Watch out for sea salt. What gets sold as sea salt is often sodium chloride from seawater, which is just plain table salt. What you want is whole, unrefined salt. @ Sylvie of course. im totally aware of that :) @ Biophys No it is not, and no it does not. Gluten is a name given to a part some grains foods which contains a protein called gliadin. Some people are allergic to gliadin, causing a disease called variously “Gluten Enteropathy” and “Coeliac Disease” (Celiac in USA). If you are not allergic to gliadin, then eating gluten which contains gliadin is not dangerous. @ traderjim7 Kimberly, You heal your gut with avocado, probably the most nutritious food you can eat. Another helpful food for that is organic yogurt, but be sure to avoid the kind with sugar in it. Remember to eat a good amount of roughage with fruits and vegetables, so that your food will go through you properly without any issues. @ Nabeel Saeed Hassan Sylvie, since you can’t eat fruits without feeling bloated or gassy, maybe its Your gut you need to heal. Carbs didn’t ruin your gut and give you yeast; handsanitizers and antibiotics and UV filters did. We ARE our microbiome, and our modern lifestyles complete ignore this fact. If starches caused diabetes, ALL of south east Asia would be diabetic and dead. (it isn’t). Why? because our genes are a lot smarter than you realize. 5000 years is plenty of time for genes to adapt to changes in nutrition. Which is why its no accident that grains became a staple of human everywhere, and in fact gave the grain eaters a huge advantage over those who still ate tubers for starch. Humans and grains co-evolved symbiotically. Besides you have to be very hypocritical, or very stupid to promote dairy consumption but prohibit grains. What stone-age man drank cow’s milk? No, our bodies are NOT the same as the stone age, nor is anything that we even think of as food. Your whole sticks and stones diet is therefore based on a lie. @ Trillstar Starches aren’t the main culprit of diabetes. The problem is starches combined with added sugars. Yeast survives on sugar. When you eat sugar (and thereby, carbs in general), you are feeding the Candida. 5000 years is a drop in the bucket when it comes to adaptability. This is the reason people are continuing to develop diabetes, because we haven’t evolved to be able to process all of these agricultural grains, which didn’t show up on earth until roughly 7500 years ago. Before that, humans survived on meat and foraging. That means nuts, berries, some vegetables, some fruit. No chips. No pasta. No wheat. No bread. # Neal All false. You may feel bad for the first week or two on low-carb, but that is withdrawal. It’s just like the heroin addict who tries to quit. They feel real crappy while their body is reeling from the heroin deficiency, and with your logic, they might say, “Well heroin must be good for me.” Our whole society is addicted, strung out, on carbs and sugar. You may have a particular sensitivity to protein, but you are a rare case. More likely, you are sensitive to a certain ingredient in the meats you have tried. ( And if you are vegan or have tried to get protein from exclusively non-animal sources, THAT’s your problem). Our ancestors before agriculture ate mostly meat proteins and fats, and what little carbs they got came from berries and nuts. We are descended from that stock, and our physiology is almost identical to theirs. There are still whole societies today who live on a low-carb diet, such as in the jungles of South America and above the Arctic Circle. And guess what? Diabetes is almost unheard-of in those societies. The diet humans ate for thousands of years pre-agriculture is not the problem. I cannot believe you seriously think that potatoes and pasta are good for diabetics. I have been almost completely carb-free for three months, and I feel great. All my cholesterol and other blood work is great. Now if I were to eat a bowl of pasta right now, then I would feel like crap, and also start back craving the carbs that made me that way. Stop believing the government and Big Agri. @ AUricle Neal, RW’s “problem” is that she’s diabetic and has probably already damaged her kidneys to a degree. Any normal person who follows the whole Atkins plan through ALL 4 stages will emerge a healthier, fitter, slimmer person. As far as being tough on the kidneys, the ‘induction’ phase of Atkins will put you into ketosis (not acidosis) which could give you kidney pain, BUT if you’re drinking the amount of water he recommended, you will eliminate the extra ketones without causing problems. All know is, when I did it, my carb cravings disappeared totally by the 5th-6th day, and once you get past that, induction can go on indefinitely until you’re close to the desired weitght. It literally fell off chunks at a time for me! @ Sylvie i had exactly same experience ..and ive been on ‘atkin’s version’ for over 12 years now. i call it caveman diet though. i have tonnes of energy, no cravings, i sleep like a corpse for 5-6 hrs, perfect digestion, im skinny and have great skin. :))) it’s unreal how different i feel from what i used to be all my life before that- lethargic, no energy to do anything, exhausted after a normal work day, could sleep until noon every day and still feel not rested, 3 pm crashes, weight gain, etc ect. what amazes me is that people are sick and fat and still defend the bad food they eat. the lack of common sense is shocking. cheers! @ Smart_Tech_Spinner What people did millions of years ago… must be good for us today, right? (Like those 30 year life-expectancies) # scott schor I’m diabetic and had a heart attack. My nutritionist from cardiac rehab encouraged me to up my proteins and healthy fats, and to discontinue all processed foods. It’s been three years, I lost 90 pounds and am considered a rockstar by my cardiologist’s office. As I upped my protein intake (generally 30% of my daily intake, I drink more water to assist my kidneys. # disqus_wreTySFzQM I quit eating fruit and wheat products except one cheat day a week October 18. I weighed 277 that day. Yesterday jan 27 I weighed myself I was 237.8 (digital scale. I would suggest if you have problems with protein drink a lot of water. Also get rid of dairy if you are using any for protein. farmers put cattle on skim milk to fatten them up # WeAreNotAmused Atkins was mainly discredited because it had too many bad fats in it. As for inflammation, mine is caused by grains, gluten, soy and dairy, along with sweeteners, carageenan, too many simple carbs eaten out of proportion, the wrong oils, the wrong protein (commercially produced proteins are harmful, but grass-fed, organic, free-range, eaten in proportion are part of a healthy, balanced diet (find a good anti-inflammation plan, which has helped me cut inflammation/swelling significantly, along with some modified Paleo). I’ve already normalized all my glucose numbers that way. I scarcely ever consume any grains, nor white potatoes. Fruit servings need to be done proportionately, as well. There is no one-size fits all eating plan. # OstaraBaby Rebecca, is it all proteins you have trouble with or just animal proteins? Animal proteins are highly acidic and could be causing your inflammation. You might try some beans (the hard kind you have to cook, not already canned). The little red beans I usually eat have only 60 cal per serving and 7 g of protein plus they give me fiber. Kidney beans are a higher protein bean too. Quinoa is also a good vegetable protein source, and it picks up the flavor of foods it is cooked with. So when we make meatloaf, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, etc at home, we use a 93% or better ground beef and mix 1 part beef to 2 parts quinoa. That cuts our consumption of animal protein to a third (a little over ONE ounce per 4 oz serving of the dish) and still almost 20 grams of protein. If you eat NO meat at all, quinoa is still very versatile – you can use it anywhere you would have used rice, as a side dish or with veggies mixed in. Personally, I try to eat like my grandparents, before processed foods became so prevalent. I don’t avoid any food component – I include carbs, fats and proteins – and I feel it is a mistake to exclude any of them. Our ancestors evolved eating them all, so our metabolism is geared to being supplied with them all. Just stay away from anything processed (ie, my carbs are complex). # Trillstar I’m diabetic as well and I have to disagree with you. Of course, if you indulge in fatty food, you will gain weight. This is because fat is more calorie dense than protein or carbohydrates. I also engage in this annoying balancing act when it comes to diet. One thing I can tell you for certain is that carbs. ALL CARBS are the enemy of the modern diet. All carbs eventually turn into sugar. Diabetics have trouble processing sugar. Simple enough. Stop eating sugar=stop eating carbs. That doesn’t mean you supplement your diet with fatty red meats. It means avoid potatoes, whole grains, and especially white pasta. Your chances of dying from a blood-sugar induced heart infarction is far greater than your dying from Kidney complications. # John Moser Atkins recommended we eat less starch. He was right. Loonies recommended we eat 50 pounds of bacon and zero starch. # ArooMadazda Glad that is working for you, but the exact opposite is true for me. When I eat wheat and too many carbs, I feel bad, can’t sleep, and gain weight. When I stay away from the above, I feel great, lose weight and sleep all night. I guess it goes to show that not everyone is the same. * Idnylar You got that right! * http://www.cheese.com/ John Goatbirth The sushi situation is such a bugger – it would be really damn healthy, but for the mercury content. * izahavinpizza1 boy, could I go for a white rice & fried chicken sandwich on nice thick white bread * http://www.nwidesigns.com Kevin Morrison Moderation is the key, if you ask the right moron everything can be listed as bad for you. Its all about balance and if you balance your diet most all this nonsense about what is and is not healthy means squat! * Akgrandma No Hammibal, you are acting like a Dodo. The reasoning goes like this: we are apes (by some people’s contention;) apes eat meat; we can (and should) eat meat also. Let’s don’t warp the subject into something it is not. * http://stephenjones2013.wordpress.com/ Stephen Jones Some fats are very bad and some fats are good for you. When will fustian24 get the message? * SupeRed09 What’s this? Energy Bars have actual energy in them? Well I never…! * jonas (guest) Kind of an obvious set of articles, for the most part. Of course consumerist eating habits rely on a lot of dumb that should maybe be pointed out. Granola bars and prepared salads an unhealthy grab at our wallet, gee who knew food product designers were so unethical? We’re up the creek health-wise from eating and don’t even see how it happened. Scoundrels!! Eat less, eat better, eat less processed, and eat enough (or you) good suitable food you’ve properly educated yourself about. And yes being active however you can is a panacea. * cjhall You need another brand of Greek yogurt, then. You’re buying some kind of Franken-yogurt. Fage Total 0% Plain, which is also my favorite and should be the only kind a person buys, contains only Grade A Pasteurized Skimmed Milk, Live Active Yogurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei). Copied directly from the container. Add your own flavor and sweetness with fresh fruit. If you buy it already flavored, then yeah, you’re going to get some weird ingredients. * Decom Poster The obvious here is not that all of these are unhealthy options, but that it may seem to be very difficult to get unprocessed stuff in USA. Tomato sauce for example, here the option is to buy tomato in a can? pureed tomato? Why don’t you buy natural tomatoes, onion, garlic, fresh basil, olive oil and sea salt? Then cook everything and you’ll get real tomato sauce. Artificial sweeteners are not the problem here, te problem is that you can drink as much as you can and you’ll never feel full. Can you eat 10 oranges? Don’t think so, but it is very easy to drink 2 pints of orange juice with all the natural sugar and excess vitamins. Natural sugar is still sugar and any excess will finish in your gut and buttocks. Control yourself, drink coffee without sugar, water alone and learn to cook something from natural ingredients for God’s sake! * Ellis Richards I think the biggest idea is that people think grains are totally good for you. They are LESS “good” than meats. and yes, too many calories from any source makes ya fat. logically. Ain’t no confusion. the “argument” is mostly about meat. in today’s society, MEAT is getting a bad bad rap…. way too much bad press. + Scott White Well the “bad press” is there for a reason…reasons i’m SURE you disagree with. Even with “proof” or stats or experiments…I’m SURE you’d say they aren’t good enough for one reason or another…just the same as someone with the opposite argument would say. For alot of people some “proof” isn’t good enough. The real question is…can a person be healthy and fit…without meat. Is it possible? I don’t expect you to answer this..i expect the vegans to prove it (many of them have, and many of them fail). * mark Isn’t lots of calories the point? I mean im sure if you just sit on your ass and do nothing you will gain weight, but if you do anything active, such as spend the better part of your day climbing a large mountain, a high calorie light weight source of protein like an energy bar is great. Particularly if its a hot summer day, something with sugar and salt in it is great, since you lose so much sweating. * Scott White So…your solution? I mean it’s almost as if…we should be more like cavemen? i think your forgetting how different times were…rape was considered almost normal…pillage and plundering…people also did not nearly live as long. It almost sounds like you think they had it…all figured out, or you admire them. I personally would rather deal with the school shootings than the constant death that “war” seems to bring…and that is just as old. * Scott White Good post man: ) * Scott White Well…many people agree i’m sure…and many will disagree…the average joe and educated nutritionist’s alike. My question is…what would are “ancestors” have done…IF they had the opportunities like us… + scofflaw What do those old ancestors know anyway? They are all dead. * Max_Freedom Fat from nuts is nothing to be concerned about.This is silly. * Shelley_B The whole diet discussion is a crazy one. Okay, I don’t eat the mentioned foods since I don’t like sugar. But seriously, why do people fuss over grains or proteins. I hate low fat food, since it’s tasteless. The key is to eat only what your body needs. The problem is excess. I always asked myself where the usda found the 2000 calorie diet, but upon examining labels from so called healthy juices, I got a very good idea. The only grain I definitely eat is rice and no more than my body is able to use. By the way, proteins are not hard on your kidneys as long as they are in natural form. * Tonkatoytonya Plenty of protein in your diet is the way forward, less carb! * ARBEE Wow. After reading the comments I can see why we are so unhealthy. FACT: Animals eat healthy plants and then we eat the animals. This is a SECONDARY MACRO-nutrient. FACT: The digestive system of ANY meat eater is SHORT for a reason. You have to eat a ton of meat to get any nutrition out of it, hence the shorter digestive track. So we have 2 food groups, not 4. The first one is MICRO-nutrient. The second is MACRO-nutrient. DAIRY is NOT food. And when your body leeches calcium out of your bones so that it can process meat and dairy, stop wondering why you have osteo. The whole idea of nutrition wont kick in until its too late and you are on a hospital bed. FACT:Ask ANY doctor , anywhere. They will tell you to eat more veggies/fruit. Make a blended shake or 2 everyday with fresh fruit & veggies… NOT juice. You WILL live and feel better AND lose weight, guaranteed. I’ll bet everything I own on that statement. ;-) * Sincerely Yours Learning all the time. * potteremma Just remember, You don’t have to feel full all the time. Being hungry(Not Faint) is just fine for a couple hours before eating. Half the worlds population lives on a handful of rice each day and is very hungry all the time. A lot of them live to be over a hundred years old. * tokoloshiman eat drink and be merry , it may be your last opportunity! * Tim Brown Trail Mix exists because it is extremely dense when it comes to calories – for it’s weight it packs a lot of energy – it was created for that very purpose. So it isn’t really fair to call it “unhealthy”. Anything that is designed for athletes on the go, probably should not be eaten by people tying to lose weight. Just as a runner will load up on pasta prior to a race or marathon, somebody trying to eliminate body fat should stay away from that meal. * Gregory Brown Trail mix is called that for a reason. Its calories are meant to fuel hiking on a trail. * harryhill Really, actually FIBER is the bad one. Million of words devoted to the need to have Fiber by the tons. Read Fiber Menace. Trying to get over impactation using fiber intake did me in. * Ronin There were no overweight people in Belsen, and all the other starvation death camps, its all about stuffing food down your throats. As for grains, they contain a cocktail of chemicals to be mass produced and genetically altered. Almost everything we eat and drink, has a chemical content, we consume a mass of chemicals every day. Even the “air” we breath is laden with filth. Just start by checking out the “contents and ingredients” hidden away on the packaging. * James Holy geeze, why the continued emphasis on fat? How about this, make a google search for something along the lines of “bioavailability nutrients fat” and you will probably find lots of scholarly articles talking about how everything from caretonoids to you name it is ONLY useable by your body in the presence of dietary fat. This is because many of the vitamins and nutrients we require, especially the ones from vegetables, are fat soluble. Bottom line? If you eat a salad with lots of fat, you will get the most out of the vegetables. If you eat a salad with no added fat or sugar, you won’t get much out of them but it won’t heart you. If you eat a salad with no fat but added sugar(every low-fat dressing on the market, basically) it will actually be deleterious to your health. * nikz nik Everyone has mentioned about calories, Fats and Carbohydrates. Haven’t you all thought about people have different metabolisms. I have a fast metabolism and I burn fat quicker than people with slow metabolism; however as I am becoming older my metabolisming is becoming slower. Exercise is very important and since I have stopped going to the gym for nearly 9 months I feel crap. Tiredness, lethargic, lack of energy, lazy, feeling Ill and I am pretty sure I have gained weight even though I hardly eat junk food. I eat whole meal chapptis with healthy indian curries and eat meat once a week. But I am really addictive to Coca Cola * The Kreator Many studies in the past five to ten years have concluded that the healthiest that the population of the UK has been in the last 100 years was during WW2 when the population was pretty much forced via rationing and food shortages to eat mostly leafy and root vegetables and ALL of any animal slaughtered, which means eating ofel as well as meat, but keeping to a minimum the animals consumed as these were a very inefficient food source, the single biggest factor of this diet was the scarcity and therefore reduced indulgence in food. As well as the effect of diet, many more people were taken out of their inactive lifestyles and forced to work, meaning everyone even Royalty had sufficient exercise. We have a lot to learn from these studies. * skinnyribs2 How does the Atkins diet work then? + Michael Kendrick The Atkins diet revolves around ketone metabolism and high fat consumption. So, fat as you know it is in the form of a triglyceride. This is three fatty acids attached to a glycerol molecule. In order to digest fat for energy, you have to break off the fatty acids, attach CoA to them (fatty acids are dangerously reactive without CoA on them), get them through the mitochondrial membrane, and begin exposing them to the enzymes of beta oxidation. Because CoA is involved in this process, you can only metabolize (burn) so much fat at a time. Also, there are separate pools of CoA on either side of the mitochondrial membrane because in order to pass a fatty acid through you have to swap the CoA for carnitine temporarily and then swap back on the other side. When you eat a diet that is very high in fat and extremely low in carbs, you get to the point where your CoA pools are insufficient to process all of the fat that you need to, and your body will start to make ketones out of your fat instead, mostly in your liver. These ketones proceed through your bloodstream to nourish organs and tissues in a similar way as caloric foods do, and are only made because you aren’t supplying your body with the carbs it needs in the first place. It sounds good on the surface. But it is not. For example, your brain exclusively runs on glucose or ketones–it cannot use protein or fat to nourish its cells. If you don’t give it glucose, you run the risk of damaging it. There are a lot of problems with the Atkins diet though. First of all, metabolism of all of your sources of energy are tied to hormones like glucocorticoids and mineralcorticoids, so eating essentially zero carbs will probably screw up your endocrine system. Second of all, partly as a consequence of the first point and partly as a consequence of fat metabolism, you get really dehydrated on the Atkins diet. Initially, you will be losing mostly water weight, not fat. A lot of people think of weight loss and healthy weight in terms of pounds when they should be thinking body composition–a lady can weigh 150 pounds being mostly adipose tissue and not look attractive in the slightest, or she can weigh 150 pounds being mostly lean muscle with a little bit of body fat and then she looks so good she’s out of your league. Third, and this is the decisive point for me personally, on the Atkins diet you’re eating mostly protein and fat. This has consequences for your health aside from weight loss. Eating too much protein is very hard on your kidneys and heart–that’s well-documented by hundreds of studies. Eating too much fat is more complicated because there are different kinds of fat, but with protein sources the fat is usually saturated (the worst kind for you). You always transport fat around in your body as either fatty acids attached to special transport proteins in your blood or as triglycerides in special spherical packages called chylomicrons in your blood. These chylomicrons have different names depending on which proteins are responsible for holding them together, but you’re going to be most familiar with HDL and LDL. You see, they also carry around cholesterol. Neither HDL nor LDL is “bad cholesterol” by itself–in order to become dangerous these carrier molecules need to participate in unlikely side reactions where they get oxidized, glycosylated, acetylated, etc. If that happens, they have the potential to invade your arterial walls as foam cells and contribute to atherosclerosis. As I mentioned previously, saturated fat causes LDL receptors in cells to be made less frequently (these receptors take LDL out of your blood stream and into individual cells where it can be processed safely & normally) by physically blocking some of the machinery that makes those receptors. Also, on the Atkins diet you are far more likely to be seeing oxidized LDL molecules in the first place for two main reasons: 1–most antioxidant nutrition comes in the form of carbs, such as fruits, and you need antioxidants to prevent oxidation, duh. Furthermore, antioxidants that don’t come packaged with carbs in nature STILL need carbs to be made. Example: in the first steps of glycolysis carbs can enter the pentose phosphate pathway: Glucose -> Glucose-6-Phosphate -> 6-Phosphogluconolactone + NADPH. NADPH is a critical antioxidant. The PPP is not the only source, but it is the major source of NADPH in most organisms. So yeah, carbs are necessary for proper health. 2–the sheer number of LDL molecules circulating through your blood stream is going to be much higher on the Atkins diet than it would be on a sane diet because the sheer proportion of your calories that come from fat is much higher on the Atkins diet. You’re more likely to maximize your aterial clogging and potential for heart attacks because you will have more LDL and be less able to keep it from participating in unwanted side reactions on the Atkins diet. And that is how the diet “works,”or rather, doesn’t work. I’ll say it again, the body builders are the closest so far, just don’t go popping all their bottles of dangerous supplements. o jayv58 I don’t think you answered the question, the question being if the only thing that matters is calories in / calories burned, then why will one way of eating (for example, more calories in an Atkins diet), allow one to lose weight, while eating less calories in another diet will not lead to weight loss). The logical answer can only be one of two answers, there is more to it than “calories in / calories burned” or you are actually eating less calories in the Atkins diet but just don’t realize it. # Michael Kendrick You want to know how the Atkins Diet makes you lose weight? I’ll spell it out for you: Step 1: you forcibly shut down carbohydrate metabolism. Step 2: you start using mostly fat for energy, which produces water waste. Step 3: you pee out the water waste. Step 4: once your body realizes you aren’t giving it carbs for energy, the organs that can’t even USE fat for energy start crying (not literally). Step 5: In order to free up CoA molecules, you stop digesting fat for energy through beta oxidation (the normal way) and start making ketone bodies out of the fatty acid molecules instead, primarily in your liver. Step 6: you start using these ketone molecules to try to compensate for not having any sugar that organs like your brain NEED. Step 7: these ketones smell funny, and now so does your breath, which is how anyone can tell which diet you’re on. Step 8: You will lose water weight first, which has nothing to do with calories, but is unhealthy. You will lose some fat too, but only if your calories in < calories out. The one exception is if you don't have the required micronutrients to actually process food for energy (fat for example takes pantothenic acid and niacin and flavoproteins among others), then you are starving yourself. Usually this doesn't happen because Atkins includes vegetables, which are great sources of these micronutrients. Conclusion: Provided you are not nutritionally deficient, even on the Atkins Diet your weight revolves around calories in vs calories out, but the initial weight you lose which is independent of caloric intake will be from dehydrating yourself. Congratulations on that. @ Paul_Buhl One does not need to be a bio-chemist to eat right. Use common sense and listen to your own body. Stop eating junk white flour and refined sugar, period. You can include carbs from grain, but avoid whole grain flour as well. Use real “whole” grain (not ground into a super concentrated flour state) like flour-less sprouted grain bread, and keep even those grains in lower balance with lean protein, vegetables and fat. You will know what works for you by feeling the results. # drx1 People rarely track their calories. If they do it is not for long… calories tst you don’t burn are turned to fat (storage) for your body. Having some fat is good. Some diets can cause the body to go in ‘starvation mode’ and the body will burn less calories … your metabolism goes down (you have less energy). This is why eating healthy is key – so is a healthy gut. Processes foods are bad. Processes sugars are worse. Artificial sugars are even worse still, unless your body is already wrecked. Drinking water and # WeAreNotAmused Many people are eating foods their body does not properly digest, which in turn can lead to weight gain. Reworking one’s diet to the foods your body can handle (skip all the processed crap being a huge consideration). It takes some time and experimenting, but it’s worth it in the end. # je many people do not lose weight on atkins – it still has to be calories . . . but most people can’t tolerate a pure protein/fat diet over time (ie, their calories end up decreasing). * nyran125tk so eat salad with wholemeal bread with no sauces and you should be fine * Jman Trail Mix is not meant to be healthy, the reason it is called trail mix is because when you are out camping or otherwise it is meant to be a high calories intake for survival. Of course trail mix is going to be fatty, it is meant to be. * Chris Brown I am in the interesting situation where I need lots and lots of calories cos I’m tall I mean there will be lots of people who think that’s a good thing but I find it hard to keep weight on, alot of the fatty foods I tend to eat alot cos I just don’t cook enough at home, theres no substitution for home cooking though, as for energy bars and energy drinks I used to get loaded up on a couple a day and it just made me overly stimulated, coffee is my personal fave for quick energy * Mark Penrice I suppose a couple of these might be sort of surprising to some people…? But most of them shouldn’t really be that much of a shock. 1/ Muesli is basically trail mix in a bowl, with milk on it. It’s a high energy breakfast for people who are going out into the snow all day to do strenuous things, whether recreational skiing or chopping down trees. Shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s loaded with calories and sugar. The fat is a bit of a surprise, granted, but that’s less problematic than the sugar rush. Making your own can help, but it doesn’t avoid the fact of its origin. 2/ Banana chips. The clue’s in the name. Specifically, the “chip” bit. Nothing that comes as a “chip” can be considered good for you. Notwithstanding that bananas are a pretty sugary, fatty excuse for a fruit in the first place. Bonus on #3 – although I would actually have suspected Tuna as being an otherwise healthy choice (so long as you don’t take the easy option of slathering it in mayonnaise and instead either take it straight or with a sparing dash of soy sauce and/or a glug of rice vinegar, etc), the fish is established and well known as a strong muscular bioaccumulator of toxins like mercury and that your intake should be limited… at least since Minamata, anyway. Which was already old news when I was at school and learning about it in geography class. On top of that, we have the issue of taking it as sushi (already a slight risk in of itself – what, no grilled steak, or having it tinned?)… and a maybe more pressing one of 6+ ounces of it actually being rather expensive. If you can easily afford to eat that much of it a week, you can probably find room in your budget for a dialysis machine to hook yourself up to whilst eating, set up to strip as much mercury from your blood as possible even as you absorb it from your meal. I’ve no worries about overdosing, as even the little “4 ounce” (3 actual ounces when drained) supermarket tins are getting ever pricier and it’s now more of a sandwich filling treat than a staple… the fresh cuts are far worse, possibly more expensive even than lamb / veal / venison. 4/ Energy bars … if you really need it pointed out that something that is basically a chocolate or candy bar, with extra sugar and stimulants shoved into it to make it an “Energy” (big clue there! calories = energy!) bar, then there’s probably no hope for your life as an independent adult. Maybe I’m a freak but it was always obvious, and I’ve only ever viewed them as an emergency pick-me-up, a system reviver when it’s becoming very hard to continue with the day, that I might have half a dozen of during the year and then try to eat extra healthily the next day to compensate for it (ditto Energy Drinks, especially the high powered ones that leave you feeling like a robot with an overloaded battery). Never as a “healthy snack”. 5/ Trail mix. IT’S EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO POWER YOU UP AND OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES, ON FOOT, AND NAMED AS SUCH. What part of that suggested it wouldn’t be full of empty calories that are intended to be digested and absorbed as easily and quickly as possible and sent straight into your blood… and from there, ideally, right into your muscles, turned into movement, heat and carbon dioxide, with the latter being quickly breathed out? Or, if you’re just snacking on it without exercising, into your fat cells after a quick sojourn in the liver? (What next, you reveal that Kendal Mint Cake is actually a block of pure sugar with a dash of mint extract, coated with the thinnest possible layer of dark chocolate, and it’s probably not a good idea to view it as a healthy option that’s OK to nibble on whilst slouched on your sofa?) I think the upshot of all this can be summed up as “just because it has fruits and grains in it doesn’t automatically make it healthy”. Which one would hope might be obvious to anyone who’s ever eaten a black forest gateau. 6/ OK, it’s a salad. It’s also slathered in oily and oddly sweet dressing. At what point did the alarm bells not go off? If you must order a salad from McDonalds, ask for them to either hold the dressing, or at least give it to you on the side. Then muse on how you could have got the same thing for a quarter of the price from Walmart. And let’s not even start on other things that abuse the falsely “automatically healthy” “salad” name such as potato, waldorf, etc. I wouldn’t worry about the parmesan, though. You get so little of it – thanks to how strongly flavoured it is – that until it starts to overpower the rest of the dish you can pretty much ignore it. Similarly if you make a greek salad and have a few cubes of feta and a cheeky drizzle of olive oil and balsamic. It’s the soggifying masses of mayo or readymade vinaigrette (which has a much smaller vinegar:oil ratio) that’s the real problem. PS a salad that actually has any kind of meat in it other than maybe plain, undressed tuna or a smaller amount of absolutely lean, plain chicken is a false salad. Especially so if it’s bacon. Go veggie / pescatarian, and have whatever meat you want in your meal on the side in explicit addition to the salad, or go home as you’re only fooling yourself. 7/ This is the main “surprise” (besides the tuna, I guess). Who would have thought there was so much sugar in even relatively plain yoghurt? However, it is now established as a common cheat for low-fat products to have a lot of sugar in them (and indeed, low-fat and low-sugar ones to have a lot of artificial sweetener, which can be its own problem besides the disgusting aftertaste). Otherwise the stuff just tastes bland. Once you start looking, you see it everywhere. It’s why I pretty much abhor all “diet” and “low fat” type foods, because not only do they taste or “feel” wrong, but they’re not actually any better for you unless they have so much taken out that they’re barely recognisable as what they once were and utterly unenjoyable. Better to have a smaller amount of the original thing along with a healthy, cheap, filling staple, and learn to ration and appreciate it instead of stuffing your face with crap. The exception is when they’re on clearance in the shop – being rather poverty stricken, low price trumps all other concerns. Which is why this week I have worked my way through a pack of “low fat” crumpets (I’m not even sure where the fat IS in regular ones – I thought they were just flour, water and yeast! It’s kind of the point!). With acceptable amounts of what would otherwise be considered rather fatty toppings (given extra flavour with a smear of yeast extract). Anyhoo. Sidestep it by just having a smaller, sensible amount of the real thing. It’s actually better for you that way. Plain greek style yoghurt (either set, or bio-active) with some fresh fruit on top. Nice :) * Susan Great post! I wish I had started eating like that years ago instead of waiting until I needed triple bypass surgery. Now, I am not allowed to eat some of the healthy foods you mentioned. live and learn the hard way. By the way, I have always been slender and exercised. * Sylvie You are still wrong about the fact the high cholesterol is bad. IT’S NOT! but i guess that truth will take few more years to come out and for the brainwashing to be undone, as it will be fought -and i can imagine how hard- by Big Pharma. How can they let go the gazillions of dollars that the cholesterol lowering legal scam made them? + D’Lene Just recently read that some of the cholesterol fighting drugs are worse for you than the cholesterol. o Rich39 My GP put me on Cholesterol medicine. My heart doctor took me OFF cholesterol medicine. Plus two other drugs the GP prescribed. The GP give me 6 drugs to prevent future problems. My heart doctor said….No, they cause other problems now. Weight gain, fluid build up in my body, aches and pains etc. # Sylvie You can fix all that Rich39 with the right food. Get off sugar and other manufactured carbs. They call it now Paleo diet, but it’s just the way humans should eat. Meat, fats, eggs and some vegg. All non-processed and fresh- you gotta do the cooking, man. Then watch your cholesterol drop/normalise and all other issues go away. Do it for 2 weeks first then go measure your cholesterol levels and let us know..and let me know how you feel :) If any of you asks how dare I to give any advice- well did his Md’s cure Rich39 of any issues? LOL Changing the DIET is key as BAD FOOD and DIGESTIVE issues and DEFICIENCIES caused by that are why we get sick in the first place. Understanding the root cause of illness is key. Root cause of 95% of illnesses is nutritional (plus some enviro poisoning of course). So how do u think any MD is going to help you with that? lol Just pls don’t expect it to get all fixed up overnight what you kept ruining for years. :) Notice how MD’s maintain him on THEIR own set of drugs! haha! Clever! They get paid for every prescription they write. :) .Keeping people sick is an awesome business. cheers @ HealthyPeopleDontNeedMedicine Remember that it’s not all about what goes IN your body, but also about how your body can process it. Naturally, a whole-foods, non processed, based approach makes the most sense, but also realize that STRESS is a Huge factor. when the fight or flight response is always on then the rest and digest mode is not going to work properly and self-healing will be severely limited. @ Sylvie well that is another issue. food is key however as if you have health body you will handle stress differently. cheers :) @ mplo I tend to agree with HealthPeopleDontNeedMedicine, up to a point. Being constantly subject to excessive amounts of stress does impair the body’s ability to absorb essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals, because the person’s whole system is thrown out of kilter, compromising one’s immune system and the rest/digest mode, thus compromising, prolonging, or even preventing self-healing. On the other hand, however, there are certain neurological conditions for which daily medication(s) is/are needed in order to keep them under control. Since such conditions are conditions that people are just born with, that can’t be helped, and medications are necessary to stabilize the person, thus enabling him/her to lead a normal, healthy and productive life, like most everybody else. @ Alexander I totally agree with you on that. I had anxiety-related sleep problems my entire life until I went paleo. I still got stressed from school and other obligations after starting paleo, but I haven’t had a sleeping problem for years since going paleo. @ ArooMadazda Same for me! I can finally sleep. @ misty swamp Well said, Ms Lady. @ Otto C You had me until “They get paid for every prescription they write. :) .Keeping people sick is an awesome business.” It’s just not true, most MDs are well meaning & do not get paid to write scripts. You should be careful making false statements like that-it may be unintentional, but it can negate everything else you wrote, which was dead on. @ Don Smith No that was intentional. I want to like this Sylvie person, but after reading her comments I have found her to be a very close minded person when it come to accepting the fact that she may be wrong. She also seen to be a “know it all” providing the “correct answer” to any disbeliever who offers up scientific explanation on why she is wrong about something like evolution, and then laughing in their face about how wrong they are with a conveniently place “LOL”. She has the right ideas but lacks the character and maturity to accept that they are not 100% correct all of the time. @ Darkthirty Wrongo on the $ for scrip @ JaiGuru The paleo” diet is A: Nothing like what our paleolithic ancestors ate, B: implicated in life threatening pancreatic diseases and C: paleolithic people’s life spans topped out around 30. So…yeah. @ davidrn Actually you are just repeating the Vegan religious comments, and we all know that shpiel. Where are you coming up with that idiotic pancreatic disease comment? Let me guess, the China Study? Also, until the turn of the 20th Century, Paleo man lived as long as any other human on Earth, Paleo man have been found who were quite old, the average age is about deaths in infancy. @ nomadnewyork They don’t get paid for writing prescriptions. That’s highly illegal. They don’t even get free pens and coffee any more. @ rat killer I know many doctors and they all literally get free lunches for themselves and staff brought in daily by pharmaceutical reps–always with plenty left over. Not to mention the free samples and whatever else I don’t get to see. @ good grief Since when do doctors get paid for every prescription they write? That is the biggest load I have ever heard! Doctors don’t get paid per perscription!!!! @ Michele LOL! Yeah! Doctor get a kick back from the pharma companies every time they prescribe their drug! I read a book called the 21 Day Kickstart that changed my health incredibly. A friends dad also went vegan and reversed his diabetes and cholesterol issues, lost a bunch of weight, and breathed new life into his marriage. So much of peoples medical issues today are due to improper nutrition but doctors would rather prescribe a pill than encourage you to change your diet first. But then again most doctors know very little about nutrition! @ fizix It seems the nutritionists don’t know what they need to know either. The ones I have experience with will tell you the standard set of ideas presented in the article here, without much knowledge or recognition of more recent research, especially in terms of misconceptions about fat. @ PDuncan12345 So true. Most people have no idea that Physicians are not required to take a single unit of Nutrition in their coursework. Not one. If “we are what we eat” what the *@#!! is going on there?! @ Rhett J D. Been on paleo for 8 years only way to eat the other way is what is killing us all . # misty swamp GPs should not be prescribing MOST medication. They are NOT specialists even though they’d like to think they are, especially with psychiatric meds. @ Mike Psychiatrists are the lowest Dr.’s in the food chain. Unfortunately they know little of the excellent comments I’ve seen in this comment trail. # kaj You should listen to your heart specialist. A lot of GP are overdiagnosed the problem due to the liability issues. For me, I don’t go to an obese GP who tries to feed me with all the medicine because he can’t even have a solution for his own obesity then how can i trust his advice. # Paleo FTW You need to stop eating processed foods and food with added sugar. Eat organic natural foods… Including fatty foods… real butter, eggs, meats, vegetables, etc. Don’t buy anything in a box or made in a factory… You’ll be good as new in no time. Don’t listen to the lies about fat and cholesterol. o Eddie Coyle I’ve been on the lowest level cholesterol drug for two years. Wallah, my liver readings are elevated! so the doctor is taking me off cholesterol drugs to see what effect that has. I’m 51, I eat healthy compared to most, but I think it is time to GROW UP and go to a truly healthy, natural diet. Drop the bread, drop the pasta & alcohol, avoid processed food. SO much more is known now than even 30 years ago. Not that the knowledge is perfect, so much turns out wrong, but the basics never seem to. If it was made by nature and humans have eaten it for years, it seems to be the best choice. Eggs, meat, veggies, nuts, fruit. + Sumer54 Cholesterol comes in two forms – HDL, high density lipoprotein, is not bad. LDL, low density liproprotien IS bad. o Sylvie umm that is not enough to say. do you know what that actually means and who labelled cholesterol that? :) o krocklin A healthy person’s cholesterol is 75% LDL. It too is naturally produced in the liver and serves a function. + krocklin How right you are. Scams like cholesterol seem to take root and never die in the Medical Industry. The doctors and food and drug industry just won’t let go of this myth. I spend a lot of time collecting studies that prove this and send them to friends in an effort to get them to stop statins. Their muscles and their memories are going noticeably as they continue to take these poisons, which suppress your body’s natural production of cholesterol, vitamin K, vitamin D (indirectly) and coQ10. The irony is that most statins are prescribed to older people, who need MORE cholesterol as they age for the proper functioning of every cell in their body. + dupkaman I guess all those cardiologists, internists and cardiac surgeons are lying to you because they are in bed with all those evil drug companies…..right? Cholesterol and Saturated fats are bad for you if you are prone to CAD. As is the case with pediatricians who vaccinate their own children despite the loonies who claim it causes autism, physicians take statins themselves. If it were a scam, would they be taking them? o Mike Do your homework. There’s no giant conspiracy, just ignorance. Cardiologists know nothing about preventive medicine, they fix broken vascular systems. They never leran about prevention. Statins will prove to be bad by all measures. Just give it time. + Rusty catania Sylvie….Thanks goodness for the internet…Right? The truth about diet, fat, sugar and food can be found by searching the web. Ancel Keys and his skewed study, George McGovern and his war on heart disease has sent our country down a terrible road. On top of that, the crony corporatism of the food industry that manufactures products that make us sick….what a battle we have on our hands….whew + Robert W mine is 241 it is well out of the range what should i do if eliminate the 3 pints of milk and occasional pizza ice cream and mac n cheese maybe lower by 80 points and the kicker is i have low vit d and testosterone go figure what else is needed maybe some b-complex help it along Isnt it ok to have high cholesterol as long it not sticking to platelets or arterial walls * vitalee THANK YOU for your comment! I have type II diabetes from eating all those lovely no good for us grains that I love, bake, and crave. When I was sick with GBS and rehabilitating in a nursing home, they constantly gave me white bread, puddings, ice cream, white rice and other types foods that I have tried to stop eating at home. They would then take your blood sugar count and then comment, oh, your blood sugar is way up, we are going to have to double your insulin this evening ( by the way I’m off of insulin and on pills to control my diabetes, and plan on eating in a manner that will get me off of those). Our eating habits are way off course. I have read numerous times that the grains that we eat today is so altered that even it if was good for out ancestors, it’s no longer good for us. * nightwriter “Trail Mix” is called that because its supposed to be a quick energy snack for when you’re hiking – anyone who eats it when they’re just sitting around isn’t even trying to understand nutrition. * Bert Buddy you’re dead wrong. Calories don’t count. That is so ’80’s. What makes you fat is the insulin response to those calories. Your body is very different than a calorimeter. * Nick Stokes simple formula= eat less + burn more = weight loss, 3rd grade math! * Ink Wells Rock Kind of common sense. To lose weight NO SUGAR: no bread, no pasta, no corn, no flour, no sugar, no sweetened drinks, no dairy. It takes three days for sugar to be out of your body. Raw fish is not good (ever) and SUSHI is raw fish (parasites and toxins). Raw meat too is bad. Salads with vinegar & oil are OK.. top them with canned tuna, salmon, hard boiled eggs, tofu, beets, carrots (not beans or cheese or raisins or sweetened dressings). The yogurt is OK (<100 cal) .. use fiber (metamucil) LOSE weight. Be happy + Road Less Traveled Except, that is a crash diet. We actually need some carbohydrates, in moderation. A zero carb diet is not healthy for your body. Just have it in small amounts, focus on whole grains and complex carbohydrates, not white flour/bread/sugar/rice. * http://wwww.youniqpilates.com/ YOUNIQ Pilates Read the labels and there will be no surprises to this list. * thirdman Actually they forgot to mention that sushi themselves (not only tuna sushi) are not all that health since they mix a large amount of sugar into its rice (not to mention rice itself is high on carbs/sugar). Whenever I go to a sushi restaurant in the US, I see a large number of obese people. You can certainly get fat by keeping eating sushi. * Castlekeep Our ancestors ate what they found or hunted before farming became a way of life and people were no longer seasonally migrant, but the foods they ate hadn’t been genetically tampered with, enhanced, chemically sprayed, packaged with preservatives, so it’s very difficult to live healthfully without doing your own research about nutrition. The fact that remains is that we can’t trust the FDA to protect us from additives, pesticides, artificial sweeteners. fluoride and the list goes on. We all have to, in self defense, become our own health guardians. It takes time and a higher level of commitment from each of us to know what to eat and how to eat it, but it’s that or take meds for the rest of our lives that have side-effects that are often worse than the “illnesses” caused by what we put into our bodies that are often considered food. + BuckSargent And many starved or suffered from malnutrition and pretty much died at much earlier age. There are lots of microbes out there just waiting as opportunists of spoil food, producing biotoxins that aren’t particularly good for the human physiology. As for genetic alterations, natural selection has been giving us all sorts of recombinant DNA enhancements and mutations. Ironic, if you applied the same logic to vaccinations, which is not typically a natural approach to immunization, there would be a lot more disease and pestilence throughout the world. Notwithstanding all that, you are correct to stop and think about what you’re consuming. o Sylvie They died from malnutrition and we massively die from cancer, heart disease, diabetes,and the rest of bad food induced illnesses. The rest of us is sick if still alive. What was your point again? lol + Sunil Thomas The advantage of being an ancient hunter/ gatherer is that the body was in movement. Hunting and gathering were physical activities. Today, most of us go to a supermarket, but prepackaged foods, eat and live a sedentary life. Most of the health problems facing the US has to do with our lack of physical activity. * Leo Yes…Fat is good.(unsaturated) Yes we are apes! But we have ALWAYS been l e a n. Fat happens on a good season maybe …or seasonal but except for certain diets and lifestyles weve been lean. Science now knows that as bi-pedals we always could simply follow another beast until it litteraly collapsed. Then conk it on the head or what not. Our mode of travel is so effective and view of the land allowed us to run down many animals to exhaustion.Like a dog running a deer to death. Our bodies perform more efficiently as we lose weight. Like being starving and following and animal for days. The animal cant eat or rest and collapses eventually. Recently the woman were found to be involved in this hunting technique. We were always migrating as needed. Following food, or seasonal forageing. And we gobbled fat and still can. And NOT GET HUGE. Unless we confuse the body with all hi carb foods. It cause blood sugar variations beyond normal. This causes stress in so many body systems. Less blood sugar fluctuation in our lives… the longer we will live. * gsp9993 Ah yes, the gullibility of Americans is outrageous. What until they find out the truth about the so called organic foods they have been eating. Shocking!. They are being tooled by the largest food businesses in the whole. + Road Less Traveled Except, the organic business by far is not the largest portion of either production or sale. It’s the corporate agrobusinesses that are, which are also heavily subsidized by the government. * K. I work with some obese women that are also experts in weight loss. I always thought, eat responsibly, more activity. Too difficult? * Just my view If the food police had their way all food would be outlawed in this country, everything we eat is suppose to be bad for us. It amazes me how many people actually believe all this propaganda, the reason people in the USA are fat obese chubby etc..is because they eat too much and have no self control, the country has turned into a bunch of overweight lazy slobs. * Sagesteve Any of these you could figure out for yourself if you are knowledgeable. The worst? ANY kind of Sushi. You eat ANY Sushi? You will get and you do have parasites…period. If you are always not feeling “well”? Do a parasitic cleanse. You will feel a thousand times better. Don’t do an extreme one…just the standard “kill ‘em” with the appropriate system. * Chloe Smith Life’s too short. If I want to eat some frosting, I will. * oracle2world Except for the tuna sushi, i do not like any of this s* anyway. There is no worry i am going to eat it. * Kisha Oakes I’m on Day 9 of a 21 day sugar detox and I can definitely tell the difference! Hoping by Day 21 though some of this food tastes better than it does now lol * Paul This article makes it sound as though the chief concern you should have is for your waistline or weight. Things that are packed with nutrients like some energy bars are great for you. So they have lots of calories in them, so what? That’s what they’re for, to give you energy before, during or after strenuous physical activity. Cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes–these are what you need to be look out for. * Jason Arkin Praying for the pandemic. * AUricle It CAN be diet related…..genetics plays a role in how your body deals with fat etc. too. It ‘s more about how you metabolize food, than it is about your fat consumption. * Sylvie yes and no. to simplify- body needs to maintain a constant levels of cholesterol. if you don’t give it enough of sat. fats -your liver will produce more cholesterol. What a big surprise.. :) Cholest. in food doesn’t affect blood cholest. levels. If it does -its just for a moment. (Sorta like sugar kicks your insulin levels sky high for a moment :)) Normal digestion process. Liver function is key but you will affect liver function with sugar- huge connection here. :) Good/bad cholesterol is another myth, as ‘bad’ chol. is not really bad. :) oh how about this : In the Framingham Heart Study, in subjects over 50 years of age, they found an 11% increase overall and 14% increase in cardiovascular disease mortality per 1 mg/dL per year drop in total cholesterol levels. The researchers attributed this phenomenon to the fact that people with severe chronic diseases or cancer tend to have below-normal cholesterol levels.[71] This explanation is not supported by the Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Promotion Programme, in which men of all ages and women over 50 with very low cholesterol were likely to die of cancer, liver diseases, and mental diseases. LOL @ ‘phenomenon’ People with high levels actually live longer. cheers :) * Steve Matsukawa I eat what I want, but in moderation. I eat a Hostess Twinkie now and then, and a Snickers bar too. I am lactose intolerant so I drink Lact-Aid 100% milk, I am allergic to aspirin and associated products, and I am slightly allergic to unprocessed wool. When the Japanese started eating the Western diet they started getting all of the Western diseases and problems. Yes, they did get arthritis and some became diabetic, but that came from hard work and over indulgence with alcohol. Again, I eat what I want in moderation and I eat as healthy as anyone (veggies, fruits, nuts, etc.) so I don’t get why anyone wants to go on a special diet. Just don’t over indulge and eat moderately. Just keep the alcohol consumption to a couple of ounces a day. * James Wang hmm, white rice, the chinese have been eating that for thousands of years, i don’t see the chinese have any major health problems. + Sunil Thomas It’s a matter of quantity. While most Chinese eat a small bowl of rice, South Indians live on white rice. We eat pancakes made of rice in the morning, a plates of rice with curries for lunch and dinner. Interestingly, we have a high rate of diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, white rice remains our staple diet. * WeAreNotAmused I’ve learned to eat starchier fruit in proportion to non-starchy veg and a proper portion of protein (approx. 5 ounces of most, with 8 ounces for domestic shrimp). Too many people forget about portion sizes, which is half the battle in weight and blood sugar control. + tammytnt I have had surgery that does not allow me to eat much at a time. I eat about a cup of food at a time. Chicken, I can usually eat a breast or at least a part of one, but beef, very little. It is too dense and feels like a rock. I really like veggies, soup, yogurt. If you have any more ideas would love to hear them * markdouglas Thats VERY interesting Forgotten! Im going to look into that. Do you know which Niacin we should take> I did lower my numbers with niacin, but quit taking it, out of laziness I guess. Im not going to eat whole wheat or even much wheat at all, cause Im doing low carb, so do you happen to know WHICH kind of niacin, and how much, to take!! Please respond! + Arcanek You should avoid the time release/flush free/niacinamide versions. The type I get is the 1000mg capsules, which are pure niacin. 1000mg is way too much for most people, so be cautious. I open the capsules and only take about 1/4 or 1/5 of the capsule at a time. You can also get bulk niacin at places like pure bulk. I find that niacin is also great for colds and sinus congestion. It is especially good for bronchitis, where it is extremely difficult to clear your lungs. i just let the tiny amount i take dissolve in my mouth, and in a couple of minutes, a single cough clears clears my lungs. It is amazing how fast it works. Be warned however, that niacin is usually in very short supply during a cold outbreak, as apparently many people know how effective it is. And don’t take too large a dose, as the effect can be quite unpleasant. + Dan Lewin wheat sucks. Get your niacin from beans. * peggy BigPharma does push the statins, even though there is no solid evidence that cholesterol alone is the culprit. One need only ask why, after having most adults in the country on statins, is the leading cause of death still……heart attack?” I thik that we’re missing something, but it’s paying off for the drug pushers. + Sylvie Because it’s not cholesterol that is causing heart disease. But because most people don’t question ‘authority’ and instead of apply logic to obvious facts they continue on the ridiculous path of making gazillions to Big Pharma often paying with their lives.. A main stream ‘doctor’ said to my mother: ‘Your cholesterol is even higher then the 3 months ago. I told you to stop eating any animal products (sat. fat)”. Well she has been off ANY animal products for months and eating mainly carbs (vegge, breads, pasta, fruit, etc.) (carbs are sugar chemically speaking). I asked if she told him that and she said: ‘Yes but he said I’m lying.” That’s where the ‘Dr’s knowledge ended and that’s where hers ended too. Any suggestion that the Dr may be wrong and knows shit- so to say- was inconceivable to her, ‘What do YOU know.. he is a ‘Dr’.. etc etc :D Only now after years of talking, showing a bunch of publications, studies, the brainwashing, the motivation of the machinery behind of drug pushing industry, etc ect, only now she is finally getting it. Angry she had been fooled and sick for decades. An average or sick person mainly just wants to trust that her/his well being is actually the goal and the intention of the ‘health specialists’ But it’s not. We have been ‘trained’ to trust the ‘specialists’ with ‘medical training, asked to see credentials, diplomas,degrees, etc. Do we ever question what those diplomas actually mean? lol. Yes so we are missing something Peggy: common sense, logic, we are naive, trust authority no matter what, we are the many sheep that are being led by the few. Nothing new really :) cheers + Bendy Bentley I have felt HORRIBLE for the past year. I stopped taking my statin, and in less than a week, I feel like a million bucks! * Peter S Excellent description. Live like that since 16 years, superhealthy. Love it. + Sylvie same! :)) * http://cazort.net/ Alex Zorach While I think there are some truths in this article, I don’t like how it’s operating on the assumption of “calories=bad” and especially “fat=bad”, like how it carelessly drops a comment advocating for fat free milk, or saying chips are bad because they contain fat. A lot of foods, like whole milk, nuts, olive oil, are high in fat, but are generally better than low-fat alternatives like fat-free milk or carb-heavy snacks. * Sumer54 Thanks for the clarification. I had never been exposed to this distinction. * Love My Body I eat an Atkins bar for breakfast, an egg white proteinn shake for lunch and a big green salad with grilled fish or chicken for dinner. I enjoy a mid-afternoon snack of a handful of raw almonds and a half cup of blueberries. I do cardio and strength training at the gym 5 days a week and walk 3 miles each day on Saturday and Sunday. No weight or health issues here. If you are trying to lose weight by dieting alone, cardio alone or even a combination of both, YOU WILL NOT GET THE BODY YOU”RE LOOKING FOR! You MUST do some strength training as well!!! + ThatBaldGuy Too true. Cardio is good for you…it promotes better cardiovascular health and for me, anyway, increases my energy and makes me feel better overall. But weight loss? Not. Gotta’ lift ‘dem weights! * alfred ferguson I, too, once thought that you had to be really, really smart to be in med school. Then, I went to college and encountered those in my dorm who were actually in med school. Good grief. What a collection of (often arrogant) ninnies did I find there! (Presumably, they must have been capable in their med-related and science classes.) In any event, I no longer regarded such as they as the “elite” by any means. Some, in fact, appeared to be mentally dull. But, perhaps, that was appearance only, not the basic person. + Sylvie lol. yes Alfred.:) just look at what most ‘doctors’ can do for us? NOTHING- except SCRIBBLING a drug prescription and i mean it. *can he tell you WHY you’re sick? NO *can he advise WHAT TO DO to get better? NO *yet he makes an obscene amounts of money plus kick backs for each prescription written. (drugs – we are not sick from lack of drugs- most illnesses are nutrition/environment based. It is KEY to understand this so we will finally get that there is NO CHANCE of finding for example ‘cancer cure’… Cancers are a result of bad nutrition/environment. How can A PILL cure that?? Look at stats of when cancers became a plaque. I will leave conclusion about that to you:) * alfred ferguson Yes–all correct information. Here, perhaps, is other ‘food” for thought, since crocodiles have been mentioned. Not only have various facets of our existence evolved over eons; our brains and concordant mental faculties have also undergone evolution. Trace brain evolution back far enough, and we observe that once upon a certain time our brains evolved from what would very much resemble the brain of the crocodile today. Would this illuminate, perhaps, our human species hideous potential if not propensity for sub-human behaviors? Perhaps, actually, such behaviors are merely human–all-too-human: the crocodile or reptile brain resplendent. + Sylvie love your post haha! ….i don’t however consider crocodile behaviours hideous… only our self-preservation instinct -as we are a physically weak species in comparison to them-would concoct such a word- as we know we stand no chance face-to-face with an alligator lol :)))) ps. developing tools/weapons made human race survive.. that’s just a general comment, not specifically for you Alfred. cheers! :)) * mimi57 agree about the high fat diet! we are grain eating animals and should eat less meat and healthy fats from other sources…nuts avacados etc. and eat less processed junk bottom line and watch look at what you are eating…take time to think about what you rre putting in ur body + Mike We are not grain eating animals. Archer Daniels Midland wants you to think otherwise. Do your homework. * orlandojon Moral of the story, time to stop reading about the latest fad foods in the press. Just use common sense and eat natural foods. Nothing that comes in a box, jar or can and you will do fine. * Sylvie Yes you are right. Pro-biotics are very important if you don’t eat the ‘real’ food and one’s gut flora is off balance and/or one developed systemic yeast overgrowth because of that (CANDIDA) then it needs to be addresses. Candida needs to be dealt with first- in its presence cancers and other illnesses begin and flourish… I think the most important thing is to understand HOW OUR BODY WORKS- how it get nutrition, and how it gets affected by lack of it, or eating food-like products and what processed sugars/carbs do to it. If you get that you will then make the right choices. i can help people case by case- each one is completely different and one needs to find out health history, food habits, etc in order to give any particular advice. BUT the point is- if we just go back to BASICS – we will get healthy. There is no doubt about that. That’s all there is too it. cheers :) * Sylvie totally Tammy! It’s ridiculous but you start to get why once the whole money/profits-making by the ‘health’ INDUSTRY becomes apparent. It cant make a dime by addressing bad food habits. Only by selling drugs. If we want to be healthy and not die of cancers etc we need to start opening our eyes, get educated, and start the changes from the ground up. Im not kidding. The status quo- the lies, the denials, the brain washing of the masses for the sake of money- makes me rage. * Sylvie there is more you can do but you’re totally on the right path! awesome! :)) + tammytnt Got suggestions? Can’t do strengthening exercise, not suppose to walk much. I have post polio and exercise destroys my nerves, which will destroy my muscles. That makes it even harder to keep things in check. Any other idea’s, am open to trying things * Joan Meijer And now with Tuna Sushi you have to think about irradiated tuna from the Fukushima accident – since America’s FDA is not testing Pacific Tuna – but reports of highly radioactive tuna showing up have been released by responsible individuals. It’s very much time to take this off your menu. * Eohippus617 What is wrong with the Palo diet and their ilk is that the meat we eat today is nothing like the meat our ancestors ate. Wild buffalo, deer, even mammoth had a much higher percentage of Omega 3 fatty acids and a much lower amount of saturated fat then current domesticated beef, lamb or pork. Same thing when comparing Chicken to any poultry of the past. The other thing we all forget is that the caveman (paleo) had a life expectancy of 40 years tops on average. Now maybe it was not the diet that was the main contributor but I expect the lack of vitamins and fiber in the diet had a significant part in it. So cut down on the red meat and increase your (wild) fish intake. Eat Tuna, salmon and Swordfish in moderation (Mercury). Eat cod, haddock, tilapia etc more often. Increase your use of fresh (ideally raw) nuts and use legumes (peanuts, Beans) as a big source of your carbs and proteins. Eat fresh fruit in moderation and cut out highly processed carbs. I eat only bread that has 4 or more grams of fiber per serving and only once a day. * Sylvie The Omega 6 – cheap seed oils sold to us by food moguls consumed by gazillions gallons are the biggest culprit here that you haven’t mentioned. they are inflammatory and create environment for diseases to develop. So if you eat Omega 3 meat but cook it on Omega 6 oils like Sunflower, Corn, Soy bean and Cotton seed, Peanut oils then no point in that. Butter, coconut oil, lard, palm oil and olive oil (watch burning point of that one as it will turn acidic!) No one says all food has to be eaten raw. I said -do the cooking yourself -that way you know what goes in the food you eat. cheers + Matt Totally disagree with all of you. The best diet for humans is Twinkies, Snickers, French Fries, and anything where high fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient., veggies only when in Fries. Trust me I work for a big food conglomerate, I should know. ;) * Pat Why is soy not on this list? + Helen Tam-Semmens Soy being bad was not based on facts to begin with. Recent scientific studies show that soy actually reduces the risk of breast cancer. o dazyduck Could you provide a ”source” for this statement please? * PJL Snack bars and trail mix can be fine for their intended purpose and contents are balanced. 10 mile hikes, backpacking, trips, x-country skiing and trail biking will burn up those calories you need. * Mike List Because only some of what you eat is metabolized into things you need. Fat is turned to sugar and metabolized just as surely as sugar is. The body must do some extra work to process it, but as long as you don’t eat in excess of what you need, caloriwise, you won’t store it. protein can also be converted to sugar. * bromide1 Try reading the ingredients on the container. Packaged pasta sauce doesn’t have to contain sugar. The further down on the ingredients list, the less the item content in the sauce. Hunts makes several types that list no sugar (or very little) in their mix. Substtitute ground turkey for ground beef to reduce fat and use whole wheat pasta for a healthier spaghetti dinner. Add fresh mushrooms and spice to taste. This won’t eliminate calories, but it should reduce them significantly. It should also reduce the carb loading because of the lack of sugar in the souce. You’ll still get carbs, though, so watch portions carefully if you’re diabetic (like me). + Richard Williams Real red sauce takes about 10 minutes to prepare. Why ANYONE would eat that Bilge water tasting hunts stuff is beyond me * Guest Once a year I get fritters made of Bing cherries from Washington state. YUMMIE! * scesc A balanced diet but not to much of it is the best diet. * suibneg not to mention a steady diet of Obxma and the mass media. * OC I’m surprised about muselii snd the tomato sauce. Dr. Oz just did a segment on Everyday Foods Experts (obstetrician, oncologists, ect.) Won’t Touch”. * mplo One also has to bear in mind, too, that not all fats are bad for you. Some fats, in fact, are very, very beneficial. Avocados and Salmon, for example, contain a great deal of Omega-3 fatty acids, which increase one’s HDL (the good cholesterol) and help prevent heart disease. Avocados are also an excellent food for a person who’s trying to lose weight, because they slow down the glucose uptaker in the body. * Arturo Montenora Our whole society is addicted, strung out, on carbs and sugar. + biophys Sugars are carbs, but not all carbs are sugars * Ry Look into the mercury versus selenium interaction in ocean fish. Pretty interesting. Apparently selenium attaches itself to mercury and makes it in-absorb-able for humans. The plus; you don’t absorb the mercury. The minus; you also don’t absorb the selenium. Decent trade off though. And tuna sushi is sooo delicious. * Common Sense I think the bottom line is eat whatever you want but eat reasonable portions and do a cardio workout for 45 minutes 5 days a week. * CaptainMike1 If you’re concerned about Mercury in your tuna – stay away from the red tuna and order Albacore – white tuna. NOT “Super White” which is not a tuna at all and shouldn’t even be allowed for sale, but Shiro Maguro – Albacore. It tastes better than most red tunas anyways imo. Bluefin used to be the Cadillac of the tuna fisheries, but it’s mostly ocean-ranched and pellet-fed these days – looks great, tastes like cardboard to me. The Albacore used for sushi are the smaller/younger fish that haven’t had the opportunity to accumulate great amounts of mercury in their systems yet. But even with the highest possible mercury loads, one would have to eat a LOT, I mean a BIG FAT LOT of tuna, essentially nothing but tuna, before coming down with mercury poisoning. There are two very scary cases of seafood mercury poisoning of local populations (google it). One on the Faroe Islands where folks used to eat a lot of Whales (mammals, not fish), the other in Japan where local seafood was heavily contaminated with mercury following an industrial mishap. + Anon Not to mention the radiation. o CaptainMike1 you must be talking about the radiation that’s been seeping into the groundwater since WWII at the Hanford Reach in Washington? Or the radiation we unleashed during that war while performing our nuclear tests on the islands in the pacific which finally culminated in our bombing of 2 Japanese cities? These incidents ensured that EVERYTHING we eat these days is radioactive. Yes, your milk & spinach are as radioactive as our tuna. * Mags Kavanaugh Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death- LIVE! Auntie Mame * Dan Lewin Precisely. Most raw veg keeps it nutrients locked away in its cell walls until cooked. + Cinnamon Chestnut i like raw veggies. tastes so much better — lighter and just delicious! if i cook them, it’s microwaved. o StarDustz Sad to tell you that cooking your veggies in the microwave zaps/kills the good nutrients. We can’t win, can we?! # Smart_Tech_Spinner How can you “kill” a nutrient? They are still alive even being picked off the tree weeks ago? @ IEatRawMeat You can kill a car, and it was never alive to begin with! He meant it destroys them and therefor voids the health benefit of said nutrient. @ WingedWolfPsion It doesn’t destroy them anymore than other forms of cooking. @ PDuncan12345 Exactly right. Just another myth being unnecessarily spread around by StarDustz. @ PDuncan12345 Right on! You CAN’T kill a nutrient. They CAN be lost in the water that gets pour off if the food is boiled though. # PDuncan12345 Ad to tell you that no it doesn’t. Where do you people get these weird ideas? BOILING vegetables makes them lose their nutrients in the water. Microwaving preserves them. o Robert W better of steaming them microwave disrupts the water molecule in a bad way i need to test boiling water by stove and microwave and let it cool and water two different plants at same growth stage and see if it matters they were comparing tap water and distilled water saying distilled water is dead but add couple drops trace minerals and should be fine it makes me laugh at the war on drugs and culprits like hfsc get into our food chain it a drug at that point liquid fructose up to 90% also agave necter no good either unless using small amounts let suck the juice out this plant and reduce it down sound no better then converting coca leaves or extracting coffee liver handles it either way right keep things in their natural forms and we wont have any problems # PDuncan12345 Huh? You’re not making any sense. How about using a computer instead of your iPhone, and most of all, USE PUNCTUATION! + Bina Wigand Not all need to be cook. When u cook certain veggies. U kill the nutrients. Some are better raw then others. Like Bell peppers and broccoli. * Dan Lewin Beans, man. Beans. * Tomanydiffering Opinions If you were to follow every “food expert” opinion, you would die of starvation, so my motto is eat, drink and be merry, for you going to die soon anyway, so may as well enjoy life while you can. Ill health only takes off the last years of your life, which are the worst years, so why worry. + anon They don’t have to be the worst years if you are healthy enough to enjoy them. People here are mostly just trying to offer their help. My grandparents are in their 80’s and they still have a lot of fun. Why would you want to die at 50 and miss the chance to say whatever you want and get a free pass when you’re old? I myself want to ride on a rocking horse on wheels that’s attached to a shopping cart, and have someone pull me around while shopping. Oh, I should also have a very long whip. That one’s going on the bucket list. =) * Terry Parker We would still be small bands of nomads trying to find prey and killing each other if you were even remotely correct. Drink good whisky, who wants to live forever? * krocklin 75% of TOTAL cholesterol can be LDL in a healthy person. * Helen Pattskyn I’m tired of seeing “don’t eat fat free yogurt” — what it should really read is “read your labels!” Fage 0 (and several other great fat free yogurts) are a) lower in calorie than regular yogurt (yes, LOWER) and don’t contain sugar at all (unlike flavored yogurt). A cup is 100 calories, 7 grams of carbs (natural to dairy products), 18 grams of protein and ZERO grams of fat. And the ingredients are all “in English” (i.e., nice normal things like, milk and yogurt cultures, not this or that gum.) * JK Humbert I have a big problem…. I drink 12 to 24 cans of 12 oz. Coca Cola PER DAY. I am 5 ft 11 inches and weigh 165 pounds so weight is not my problem. I just realized my sugar levels double to 175 after drinking a few cold ones… Other than that I am completely healthy for a man of 52 years. No high blood pressure, high cholesterol (ratio), or other blood test result abnormalities. I just do not know how to stop my “addiction”. The only illness I have had since childhood and pre-soda days is migraines. The caffeine does help resolve such headaches. The sad thing is that I am a health professional and know the risks but I just can not stop despite many futile attempts to change to water. Anybody else have this problem. “Hi my name is Michael and I am addicted to refined sugars” sounds petty and lame. Thanks * valerie There are no hard and fast rules with health. Some foods are toxic or indigestible raw [like kale]. Others you may be allergic to [like I am to eggs]. Some things are healthy for women but deleterious to men [like soy products]. This is what I found works for me [after 13 years of experimenting] I eat mostly fatty animal proteins and veggies, healthy fats [like olive oil] and some grains, I exercise outdoors for an hour a day, take high quality vitamins, digestive enzymes, probiotics. I also take nootropics like Centrophenoxine, caffeine, and [provigil on occasion] and have stimulating hobbies/work. Doing all of the above has changed my body and my mind dramatically. I used to be severely depressed and had ADHD and unhealthy body composition. I still eat the foods mentioned above sometimes, I drink soda and alcohol a few times a week. As long as I stay under my caloric needs and pair sugar with protein whenever possible I stay slim and healthy. Health is highly personal and gene-dependent. Doctors are too busy treating the symptoms, and dieticians are often caught up in their own fads and personal belief systems. Americans could do four things to improved their health: up their healthy fat intake, sleep more, drink less alcohol, and exercise outdoors. We might, one day, catch up to Europe. * Foxgirl With al due respect to a Vet, I you’ve got the molecule size issue reversed. According to the books “Wheat Belly” (pages 152,153) and “Grain Brain,” it’s the small cholesterol particles that are dangerous, while the large particles are safe (i.e., unless you’re eating wheat, sugar, and the other carbs that spike our blood sugar dangerously: e.g., rice starch, corn starch, potato starch, and tapicoa starch, along with wheat, are the worst offenders). In fact, the books explain how our bodies actually NEED cholesterol (which is why statin drugs–intended to lower cholesterol–are so dangerous!). Please read the aforementioned books. (No, I’m not affiliated and get nothing for saying that.) They’re life-changing. (Look up “Wheat Belly” on Amazon and see check out the thousands of customer reviews–and read the stories of people who gave up the carbs: not only effortless weight loss (I can attest to that–and I didn’t even WANT to lose the weight), but reversal and/or prevention of all manner of ailments and diseases. Giving up these carbs will make you so much healthier! + ArooMadazda I can vouch for what you say. Lay off the wheat and carbs, lose weight, fell better, sleep better. Pretty simple. * Tom Look folks, the best eating plan is the one that works for you and that you’ll stick to. Low fat is what works for me and what I can enjoy. Low carb doesn’t work for me. Was on Atkins for 4-5 weeks. Lost very little weight, felt bad frequently, and never shook the craving for carbs. I can’t give it all up potatoes, bread, pasta, etc. I did have the occasional allowable carbs, but it just didn’t cut it for me. So, again, if that works for you, great, but it doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. It’s like exercise. The best one for you is the one you’ll do. Doesn’t much matter what it is if it burns calories. * freeman27 make your life with walking or cycling everyday either slowly or fast (depend on your ability)..then you will not concern about any calories..although you want to eat 9 to 11 pieces of chicken everyday..and you can enjoy all type of food in the world.. * angleyes I eat everything on this list, but in moderation. I’m 51, in good health, exercise at least 4 to 5 days a week. I watch what I eat 6 days a week. On Sunday, I do not exercise and eat whatever I want. * Hannah Cochran Go vegan, tastes better! Also, makes you feel a ton better. #Earthlings Watch the video Forks over Knives. * K Rowland You are all going to die tomorrow if you keep eating these things. So stop eating anything that tastes good, and make sure you live a long, incredibly boring life. * Laurelishish Nish Yogurts taste really great just on their own w/out any sugar or flavorings added. I buy nonfat plain yogurt, and it’s very refreshing and tasty. If you like tangy flavors, non-fat, unsweetened, unflavored Yogurt with nothing else added to it is the way to go. My dog loves it too, seriously LOVES it. It’s a total dessert for her. * Pat Patterson Sushi obviously doesn’t hurt the Japanese. * sunburnspecial IT’S CARBS– SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. YOU CAN’T GET IT THROUGH PEOPLE’S THICK HEADS THOUGH. WE LISTEN TO WAY TOO MUCH ADVERTISING $$$. * Zforce To the copy editor: When referring to the nutrition content of a food, you say, “healthful”. Healthy means that you are in a good state of health. Healthful means something is good for you. You don’t say amount of calories, you say NUMBER of calories. You use number to define quantifiable items. Amount if for non-quantifiable quantities. For example, you say number of calories, but amount of fat. + Cherry You do not say “you say.” It invokes an empty imperative, but an empty imperative that has a sense of authority. It makes it difficult to understand that these language rules are arbitrary, constantly open to change, and self-reinforcing (through use we come to take them as the only acceptable means of expression). Why you or some special board or committee has authority over proper use of language, and then think everyone else will blindly follow as you issue dictates about others’ use, is beyond me. At most you can say, that these language police have sampled wide use, suggested ways to remove inconsistent use, made suggestions to force different uses into a logical system . . . all well and good. But to turn around and speak in a problematic way (e.g., closing off of best understanding through emotional imperatives of authority), means that these people should have never proliferated. Lastly, everything is quantifiable, most definitely “fat.” Fat here is not being used descriptively, “you look fat.” * southmpls lowering intake of carbohydrates (white flour, white bread, white sugar, white pasta) is the key for women. we convert carbos to fat much faster than men do. * HighCholesterol Have a family history of high cholesterol. My father died of his 7th heart attack at 46. His farther died the day before him. My little brother has 4 stents in him. Im 44 going on 45. Just transferred to a new doctor that took me off all my meds, Lipitor included and put me on a high protein low carb no sugar no grain no dairy diet :-) We will see what the results are at my next testing. Feel better though I must say. * EatWellNotDiet Paleo is not about eating everything edible raw. The flaw with Paleo is the version where people believe they should only eat what hunters and gatherers did originally. That a huge range in variety when geographical differences are accounted for. The grass fed thing is key however, the biggest and most successful concept of Paleo is just removing the processed foods and focusing on grass fed/organic (as needed) and removing grains from our diet among various other things that tend to be hard for us to digest as well as insanely caloric dense. + PDuncan12345 Are you people smoking something? Remove GRAINS from our diet? Really? No more Oatmeal, no brown rice, no whole wheat cereals, or corn (that has recently been found to have serious health BENEFITS. Not corn syrup… CORN). I think there may actually be something wrong with you. One post here stated, “Look how people used to eat,” I believe referring to those who were adults in the 1950s and 60s since that’s when butter was great, eggs were good for you, and milk was essential in building strong bones and helping kids grow. Those are the people today who are in their 80s and 90s! Those are the people too though who ate half as MUCH as people do now, and they WALKED everywhere. There is no fad diet, no forbidden food, no magic formula that equals the best diet for a person except the one that is varied, small-portioned, and low on salt and sugar. Please stop touting fad diets that were only “invented” so people could make money off of them. Paleo, South Beach, Mediterranean, or whatever. You will spend your entire lives in grocery stores and farmers markets reading, weighing, checking, and deciding, and before you know it, it’ll all be over. o SandyTodd I’ve removed grains/carbs from my diet and they are right. My blood sugar improved within days. I felt better. Ultimately, I can’t afford to eat that way and it gets old. * Peter Feldmann The ‘Muesli” mentioned here and marketed in the USA is a far cry from the original, created by Dr. Bircher-Benner at his clinic on the Sonenberg above the city of Zürich in the 1920s. The clinic, basically a fat farm for wealthy celebrities, was located two blocks from my childhood home. The good doctor believed in eating only raw foodstuffs (including raw meat, such as steak Tartare BTW), sleeping on spartan cots, cold water bathing, exercise, etc. His Muesli (Swiss-German word for mixture) was formulated fresh ever morning from shredded apples, grated hazelnuts or almonds, rolled oats soaked in water for 15 min., and a little lemon juice and honey. Fresh or dried fruit was added as available, and it was served with whole, raw, milk. My mother learned the recipe from Dr. Benner and fixed it often for us. Truly delicious and very healthy (she was 94 when she died). Bircher Muesli, ask for it by name! (My American friends now know it as “Beer Commercials”) :-) + John Harvey Kellogg Sounds like the movie “Road To Wellville”. * borninmombasa I just eat what Michelle tells me to eat. * BioPhys There is a great amount of confusion and mis-understanding in all of these posts. I am a physician and biochemist, so let us get it straight. There is only one kind of Cholesterol, its proper name is 2,15-dimethyl-14-(1,5-dimethylhexyl)tetracyclo[8.7.0.02,7.011,15]he ptacos-7-en-5-ol. Cholesterol made in the body, mostly in the liver, intestine wall, some is eaten. Cholesterol is a major component of every cell membrane in the body, as well as other structures. There is no “Good” or “Bad” Cholesterol. Cholesterol is mostly transported in the body bound to proteins. Most protein bound cholesterol that leaves the liver is bound to low density protein (LDL) and the complex is known as Low density lipoprotein. The high density Lipoprotein is mostly responsible for transporting cholesterol to the liver. None of these are “Good” or “Bad”, both are essential for life. BUT high levels of LDL in the blood reflect a large amount of cholesterol going to cells, and low levels of HDL reflect less transport back to the liver. Both are associated with build up of plaque in artery walls that lead to heart attacks, strokes and loss of circulation especially in legs and kidneys. “Apolipoprotein a” LP(a) is a component of LDL, along with , which might be responsible for the buildup of cholesterol in artery wall plaque.There are various types which are genetically determined, lighter forms are thought to be more dangerous that heavier forms. There is also confusion about what is fat. Fat ONLY occurs in animals. Fats include cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid found in nerves and brain. Fats are a subset of a big group of water insoluble compounds called Lipids, which include fatty acids. Not all lipids are fat, but all fats are lipids. All sugars are carbohydrates, but not all carbohydrates are sugars. The body uses mainly the sugars glucose, ribose and deoxyribose, and also converts glucose to Fructose on the way to producing other molecules, some of these processes release energy. Sucrose is stores in the body as starch, mostly in Liver and Muscle. High levels of sucrose in the blood cause release of the hormone Insulin, and if the sucrose is not immediately used up, the balance is pushed by Insulin into storage cells in a complex series of chemical reactions which convert sucrose to fat (this is an over simplification). The faster the rise in blood glucose, the faster the Insulin response to keep blood sugar levels in a tight range. Eating refined sugars like glucose and Sucrose is dangerous, because they are rapidly absorbed from the intestine into the blood, causing a spike in Insulin levels. Complex “carbs” need to be broken into simple sugars before they can be absorbed from the intestine into the blood, delaying the Insulin rise. Fructose is worse, because it causes the same Insulin spike as Glucose, but unlike blood glucose levels which turn off the hungry signal to the brain when levels rise, fructose does not. This is used by unscrupulous processed food makers to eat more of their product, since it does not signal “I am not hungry any more” to the brain. This is a gross oversimplification, but I hope that it dispels all the myths and mis-information * BioPhys correction, Sugar is stored a glycogen in animals, starch in plants * Biophys You are correct. The myth is a reversal of the truth, If you have kidney failure, then you need a low protein diet. This is because failing kidneys will not be able to excrete enough of the toxic byproducts that the body makes when it breaks down proteins. High protein diet will not cause the kidney failure. * biophys Your grandfather was truly blessed, but there are 7.5 billion people on the planet, and one fortunate man (0.00000013%) is not significant when assessing risk. * Val Holladay JUST EAT IT!! I am 75 years old, drink 4 high fructose Pepsis a day along with potato chips, donuts, potatoes, steak, milk, vegetables, bacon,(oh yeah, lots of bacon) literally, any thing I want. I have never weighed more than 145#. I take no prescription drugs and have no illness except for the inevitable cold. It is very probable that this diet may kill me in another 10-15 years but I will not have spent a miserable life eating tofu and rice cakes. I irks me to no end how what is good for you one year will kill you the next and what will kill you today will give you eternal youth tomorrow. Why the hell can’t ‘experts’ make up their minds? + Drone Henley Yes! Anecdotal evidence trumps science every time! Look at George Burns. One guy lived to 100 or whatever and smoked the whole time. Ergo, SMOKING IS NOT BAD FOR YOU! * Brian Fruits, vegies, nuts, grains seeds, and plain greek yogurt (w/ live/active cultures). Nothing cooked above 109 degrees F, and no foods w/ psuedo estrogens (like soy). Haven’t been sick in over 13 years besides occasional airborn allergies, was about 30 lbs underweight, w/o changing my fitness habits I am now in the normal range for active adults and show no signs of the type I diabetes I was diagnosed with when I was 2 and haven’t taken an insulin shot in 12 years or a glucose tablet in 10. I don’t count calories, pay attention to fat content of any kind, and if I’m a guest at someone’s house I just eat what they serve (meats, confections, pastries, breads, etc). * Gemma Thank you! I try to point that out all the time. There is no indigenous vegan diet on the planet. * StarDustz Great advice Michael, appreciate it. Only thing I’d say differently is to skip “cow’s milk” altogether and, instead go for Coconut or Almond Milk, GMO of course. * Alexander I was glad to see this post- I always found it strange that so many people are of the opinion that our digestive tracts most closely resemble that of an herbivores.But for the matter of the eyes that face forward, I think that evolved in primates because of our need to have depth perception to swing between branches, not to hunt animals (not that primates never hunt other animals, which they do). * DChrls Like most things in life, moderation is the way to go. Also exercise, stretch and get outside. Unless you live in a big city. In that instance, accept that you live in a place that the air will probably do more harm than a little snack eating. That you are more likely to be attacked by a criminal and disease will spread faster where you live too. So if you are one of those people who feel you are more intelligent than those who live in the “flyover states” or heaven forbid ” The South”. Remember these things about where you live and PLEASE stay where you are. Accept the environment the you and politicians you voted for have made for you. Have the decency to not move to areas who have got it right. If you do, observe how the people live where you moved to and don’t repeat the same acts that shaped the last place you lived. That is all and have a blessed day. :D P.S. if you can’t handle a little humor, like this post was intended to be. Learn to lighten up and don’t take yourself so seriously. You’ll probably live longer. * JaiGuru The one and ONLY good diet is the one that includes a balanced protion of all three macro nutrients. There is no substitution. + Trillstar Duh. + jdege This is wrong on two levels. First, there is no dietary requirement for carbohydrates, so to say they must be part of the balance is simply wrong. Second, there are huge differences between the types of fats, so to say that you need some portion of your diet to be fats, without discussing what kinds of fats, is dangerously ignorant. o Robert W i dont know what to believe anymore 0/50/50 0/25/75 we need glucose for our brains to function ketosis isn’t a good way to go thru life is it it not good for diabetics is it why should it be good us helathy people maybe cleaning purge once in awhile keep your body alkaline for the most part 7.5+ o PDuncan12345 You know what’s ignorant? Discussing issues you know very little about. Ever study Nutrition in college? I did. And there is no fad diet that is worthy of this discussion. ALL of them leave out vital foods and nutrients in the name of sales. They pander to people who can’t think for themselves and who MUST watch Dr. Oz each day in order to survive. And the latest and greatest food discovery is also just to keep people watching because sooner or later it ALWAYS comes down to the exact same thing: a varied diet, smaller portions with little salt and sugar, along with normal exercise like walking IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS. Every time you read something about the latest and greatest food fad, it turns out later not to be true. The Atkins Diet? Didn’t Atkins die at a relatively young age? You cannot live on protein alone! The Paleo diet where you only eat “grass-fed” meat. Come on! If THAT isn’t a fad diet, nothing is. Remember when eggs were terrible for us? Now they’re great. Remember when margarine was going to save us from heart attacks? Now it CAUSES them! And now fruit is bad for us!!! That’s where fructose comes from you know. Did you know apples contain cyanide? And Almonds contain arsenic? You will drive yourselves stark-raving mad if you don’t put down all the idiotic claims people come up with every single day, and just… eat. Eat SMALL amounts of VARIED foods, and walk. That’s my diet book. It won’t make me any money though since there isn’t any kind of fantastic, stupendous, miraculous, magical, or sensational component of it. I hope MyDiet actually posts this. + Robert W 80/10/10 or i like to promote 65/25/10 also 75/15/10 for lower fat diets eliminating fat totally isn;t good all food should have three macro nutrients , carbs protein and fat even brocooli has like .5 per cup but foods like tofu 0 so we need to incorpersate some within the meal eating protein laden food like rabbit can harm ya if thats all ya eat some fancy name i forgot because it so lean we meant to eat our food whole i think up to what fits in our mouths isolating parts from the animal makes us deficent i think protein shouldn’t be more then 12.5% diet we have 32 teeth right out of those 4 are for meat eating the way i look at it for us omnivoire’s we aren’t true carnivores nor true grass eaters either. + PDuncan12345 That’s what I said, only in a few more words :o) * Francisco Castro Anyone with a basic high school nutrition class education should be able to surmise all of these things. They were trying a little too hard to make these really broad and generalized “facts” fit into this “7 healthy foods that turned out to be unhealthy” topic. Yes, for the most part they have the right idea and direction but it all comes down to moderation. There are too many sensationalized opinions embedded within these 7 foods that it’s hard to take it seriously when half of it holds validity while the other half completely negates the purpose and value of a balanced diet. (That is of course, assuming everyone needs the EXACT same diet which is completely ludicrous.) A majority of our American population just need to start consistently eating better rather than diving into the deep end of extreme diets. Gradually build yourself an improving habit of well balanced foods, exercise, rest and a healthy sex life and your life will transform. All of these things are intertwined and will balance out if you make the intention for it. The road to a great body and mind is exactly that, a road. Milestones are the greatest to help affirm that journey. * BW You are somewhat incorrect about the life expectancy of cavemen. The life expectancy was quite low, but that was mainly due to the high infant mortality rates, if you lived beyond childhood, the life expectancy was much much higher than 30. and with no hospitals, it was easy to die of an infection from an injury(probably very common), doesn’t mean their diets were causing them problems. There are still a few cultures around the world who eat this way (plenty of protein and fat, no grains), and guess what? they have almost zero incidence of heart disease and diabeties and most other chronic disease. New research is showing that many types of fats are GOOD for you…like “essential” fatty acids like omega 3, and even saturated fat is now being shown to actually be healthy(kinda like eggs) There is nothing in grains that you can’t get in much greater abundance by eating something else instead. You’d be 100 times better off replacing your grains with an equal amount of healthy veg or meat. Grains are “filler” food, meant to take up max. volume for min. price, they have very little in the way of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, micro-nutrients etc. they do have those things, but in very minimal quantities compared to equal calories of veg or meat. So it’s very hard to make any kind of case that a food so low in overall nutrition is somehow good for you to eat in any kind of substantial quantities. Concentrated and highly processed grain oil specifically is what promotes heart disease, notice that decades ago the usda started recommending people replace their lard with vegetable oil, their butter with margarine…and what happened? heart disease went exponential, those dietary guidelines made the situation far worse, not better. America has gotten more unhealthy since we started on this high carb diet that the usda recommends. Do yourself a favor and replace the grains with something more nutrient dense. * Trillstar 13,000 years is nothing, compared to the history of humanity. It’s no surprise we haven’t evolved to properly process these “foods” we grow for ourselves. * moderate brunei mercury toxicity eh? oishikatta maguro! * dupkaman Fat is two to three times higher in calories than protein or carbohydrates. Eat a pound of fat and you will be much heavier than if you ate a pound of carbohydrate or protein. That’s just the way it is……look it up. + Raven Storm Really? Then explain the success of the Adkins, South beach and paleo diets?! That diet not count calories and allows the dieter to eat fat and proteins. The fact that “calorie suppression diet” work because you are removing large quantities of food and inducing starvation. The same medical industry professionals who advocated hi carb low fat are the same ones who told you to count calories. The fact is that a calorie is a unit of energy and no proof that our bodies know how to “count”. Scientists applied calories to food but still don’t know what that means to the body’s metabolism function. Yes it is true there are 9 calories in fat compared to 4 in both protein and carb, which is the basis for the idiotic hi carb low fat diet, but it is also known that the body cannot digest fats and it converts carbs to fat for the body to store. So what people have been told,you included obviously for the last 40 years has been counter productive and the skyrocketing obesity rates are the telltale signs of this failure. Yet ironically during the same time our supermarkets have gotten larger in the “pantry” food area…..carbs. who is benefitting? The same food corporations that sponsored you “fat makes you fat, buy our fat free food instead” campaigns. Fat free foods need sugar and carbs to replace the flavors taking the fat out removes. Perhaps instead of telling me that’s just the way it is you should shut up and ask yourself where has listening to these ideas of hi carb diets and counting calories has gotten our nation in the last 40 years. My friend is currently on the Adkins diet and in 1 1/2 months is down over 30 lbs. She is counting carbs not calories. + Raven Storm Your body doesn’t count calories and it also can’t digest fat. What your body does do is convert what you eat into fuel, starting with the easiest form. Your body runs on sugar and carbs and that is what sugars are. Your body burns that, and stores that. If it has to work harder to break down a food into a sugar like protein, it will not be able to store as much. Look it up, because THAT is the way it actually is. It’s called a glycemic index, you might not have heard of it while you were thinking that a pound can weigh more than a pound simply by what it’s made of. * John Moser Breakfast comes after a long period of energy-consuming sleep in which the body repairs muscles and joints, consolidates memory (intensive), and consumes sugar (from stored glycogen) to produce ATP. The demand for energy is high at this point; 500kcal is quite low, and is especially good when brought as a balance of sugar, fat, and protein. I find normal breakfasts–pancakes, french toast, fried potatoes–provide too much caloric intake at around 1000+ kcal in the form of bread and sugar (syrup!), and had switched to eggs and meats and mushrooms fried in butter and lard as my primary breakfast intake. There is no documented increase in birth defects or any documented harm from mercury in fish. The FDA standards are set specifically for pregnant women, and are arbitrary: they’re set to 1/10 of what was arbitrarily deemed to be potentially toxic, although no evidence of toxicity has ever been found. They just guess it’s probably toxic because it contains an amount of mercury known to be toxic which, strangely enough, has failed to show to actually be toxic for unknown reasons. Because they don’t know why it appears to not produce toxic effects, and because they haven’t established hard-line evidence showing particularly a lack of toxicity, they suggest caution. Energy bars and trail mixes should have a high amount of fat and sugar content, with a modest amount of protein and a lot of micronutrients. You eat these when you are burning energy; they need to immediately supply usable sugar, as well as fat source for slow-burn energy, and protein and micronutrients which the body consumes rapidly under load. Often I intake straight sugar (100g directly) and water with magnesium, sodium, potassium, manganese, and calcium ions; energy bars are better. * Smart_Tech_Spinner > there aren’t any studies that prove fats make you “fat” Why do a million doctors tell you otherwise? + Raven Storm Because doctors are taught very little in the way of nutrition in med school, and thankfully that is slowly changing. No sooner do they put carbs at the foundation of the ‘food pyramid’ in the 70’s do obesity rates rise. In the meantime, they demonized any food that had ‘fat’ in it. The “it’s fat, so you’re fat” logic….really isn’t rooted in logic. Doctors are also turning away in droves from this fat makes you fat ‘wisdom’ because they are learning that it is incorrect. * ArooMadazda cholesterol lowering drugs are also associated with an increased risk of dementia. * Gstrine While grass fed animals do produce a healthier, more nutrient dense food source, its not THAT big of a deal if you eat conventionally raised meat. The amount of fat actually in the meat (Omega 6) isn’t at a dangerous level, and you can just supplement with fish oil so your omega 3/6 ratios are in line. Yes, there will be more harmful substances in the meat but that is mostly in the fat, which can be cut off. Telling people you MUST eat grassfed animals for paleo/primal eating to be healthy is just wrong and will turn away many people who would otherwise be able to afford it. Just eat leaner cuts of meat and wild caught fish (canned wild caught fish is extremely cheap). In general, removing all of the processed foods, grains, legumes, and LOWFAT dairy WILL make you much healthier than those eating the SAD (standard american diet). You will also feel like a new person, this is coming from experience. If you’re interested in the paleo/primal lifestyle check out marks daily apple .com … it’ll change your life. + JBart @Gstrine – I don’t agree on the balancing your omega-6 with omega-3. Balance doesn’t help your body deal with too much of a bad thing. The majority of your protein and fat should come from naturally fed animals. Also, most people eat only the lean cuts of meat and this is a mistake as well. Our bodies are designed to eat the whole animal; fat, skin, sinew, organs, etc. You don’t get essential nutrients like glycine from eating muscle meat. * Patrick “Eel” O’Brian removed. * LindaL This list keep repeating the BS that fats and particularly saturated fats are bad. Newer studies show this associated is incorrect. Watch out for the carbs (particularly processed) and your blood sugar wont rise as high, thus your body will produce less insulin and then be less likely to store fat instead use it to fuel your cells. * Ron Couples In addition to the mercury problem, Pacific salmon may soon contain material from the Fukushima Daiichi radioactive plume heading toward the west coast . * Greg Schlosser What you should and should not eat: Eat a variety of animal fats and protiens throughout the week for lots of good cholesterol. Cholesterol supports good brain health. Eat eggs every day, steel cut oats, natural sweetners (raw honey, raw sugar, pure maple syrup), always add butter to steamed vegetables, variety of fruits. Saturated Fat enables digestion of nutrients from vegetables and fruits, so don’t be afraid of saturated fat. Consume a variety of unsalted, unsweetened raw nuts throughout the week. Do not ever eat white flour, deep fried food, canola, soybean oil, vegetable oil, margrine, cereal, white rice, white sugar, artificial sweetners, corn syrup, dextrose, sucralose or any food that has any of the previous mentioned garbage. Never eat boxed dinners and seriously…avoid boxed cereal. If you love cereal, then cook steel cut oats with butter and pure maple syrup for sweetness. * Bccamrtn I eat super low fat, extremely high carb and high fructose vegan diet and consume over 2000 calories a day. I work out everyday for about an hour. I limit my sodium intake to 500 mg. per day and eat an all natural plant based diet. I weigh 115 pounds and I’m 5’4. My weight never fluctuates and I feel amazing. High fat low carb diets do not work long term and they suck! + mark98115 Add some avocados to your diet. They are high in fat, but it is very good plant fat. Yummy too. * mike932 I used to think that way. Now my goal is the maximize the number of my HEALTHY years on this earth. Would you rather be healthy for 30 years or 70 years? * Walt Wagner Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease1,2,3,4,5 Patty W Siri-Tarino, Qi Sun, Frank B Hu, and Ronald M Krauss +Author Affiliations 1From the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland CA (PWS-TRMK)the Departments of Nutrition (QSFBH)Epidemiology (FBH) Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA. +Author Notes ↵2 PWS-T and QS contributed equally to this work. ↵3 The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the National Center for Research Resources (http://www.ncrr.nih.gov) or the National Institutes of Health. ↵4 Supported by the National Dairy Council (PWS-T and RMK) and made possible by grant UL1 RR024131-01 from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research (PWS-T and RMK). QS was supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Unilever Corporate Research. FBH was supported by NIH grant HL60712. ↵5 Address correspondence to RM Krauss, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Oakland, CA 94609. E-mail: rkrauss@chori.org. Abstract Background: A reduction in dietary saturated fat has generally been thought to improve cardiovascular health. Objective: The objective of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence related to the association of dietary saturated fat with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and cardiovascular disease (CVD; CHD inclusive of stroke) in prospective epidemiologic studies. Design: Twenty-one studies identified by searching MEDLINE and EMBASE databases and secondary referencing qualified for inclusion in this study. A random-effects model was used to derive composite relative risk estimates for CHD, stroke, and CVD. Results: During 5–23 y of follow-up of 347,747 subjects, 11,006 developed CHD or stroke. Intake of saturated fat was not associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD. The pooled relative risk estimates that compared extreme quantiles of saturated fat intake were 1.07 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.19; P = 0.22) for CHD, 0.81 (95% CI: 0.62, 1.05; P= 0.11) for stroke, and 1.00 (95% CI: 0.89, 1.11; P = 0.95) for CVD. Consideration of age, sex, and study quality did not change the results. Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat. * Jase the amount of sushi you would have to eat to be poisoned by mercury is a ridiculous amount. some of these are nonsense. its not like people are out eating these foods all day everyday. * Christopher Pennington IIFYM: “empty calories” is an anitquated term these days. A calorie from a cupcake or a banana is the same to your body. There is no evidence to the contrary. * Sam Government hogwash * Buttercurl Did this article fall through a worm hole from 1982? * Jeff The section on mercury in tuna is very inaccurate. Please read http://www.greenpasture.org/fermented-cod-liver-oil-butter-oil-vita min-d-vitamin-a/mercury-myths/ and get your facts strait. * drsebby the sushi/tuna thing is complete garbage….the FDA sets the ‘tolerance level’ to 500% of what it actually is just as a safeguard!!! Go to their site and read it for yourself! Also, the limitations assume…3 portions per week (or whatever)…EVERY week, for your entire f-ing life!! There’s more mercury in a coca-cola than in a sushi dinner – stop the fear mongering …READ, people…just research honestly. + mark98115 Problem with Coca Cola isn’t mercury. It’s the blasted corn syrup. My rule number one – if t has corn syrup, it is not going down my pie hole. * phillyfanatic Well eggs were bad, coffee was bad, alcohol was bad. Perhaps grandma’s view that all things in moderation was not wrong. I try to eat right but once in a while have eggs, salad dressing , even fried chicken without the fried skin. Hmmm. I note that most young people speak and act like M. Bloomberg on health foods but still smoke whether it is weed or cigs. Hmm. Moderation and common sense should suffice but with so many Low Info voters on politics, rel, cultur. and health things out there, education should be at least put out there and choices have to be made. Unless of course, one is a progressive which limits choices. You know, freedom??? Oh and I am 75, go to the gym and have bad DNA in my parental and family backgrounds. I do take HBP pills but that is it. Moderation. * LlarryLLama “may develop systems”..don’t you mean symptoms?Not only is this article absurd in it’s quantity, but it’s quality as well. * Rick Baumann The references you make to mercury in tuna is almost totally bogus. Most of the bad publicity and “studies” about mercury content were funded by the meat, pork and poultry lobbies with the intent of reducing seafood menu shares in the nation’s restaurants. I have owned a gourmet seafood market and distributorship for decades – and have been privy to many seminars and classes on food safety etc. A typical sushi platter may contain an ounce of tuna or less. The implication that there is a higher mercury content in tuna sold at restaurants is absurd – and completely unfounded by unbiased studies. That statement is also extremely void of any logic whatsoever. I sell the same tuna to restaurants that I sell in my store! * Tom King Fish is fine to eat (even tuna). Just ignore the TV cooking shows and remove the skin BEFORE cooking. Mercury levels will drop 70% or more. The mercury alarm comes from the way the government tests the fish. They take the whole fish (skin, bones, guts, et al.) and grind it into a paste for analysis. A test was done with lake trout from Lake Ontario a few years ago- the standard tests showed levels of mercury that would limit someone to one serving a week. Testing fillets (skin, bones & guts removed) the mercury levels dropped almost 90%. That’s because fish build up mercury in their skin & scales, not their flesh. * CANDYF77 . Let me tell you the truth. Unsaturated fats are what a person what’s in order to lose weight and to increase energy. It is more effective as a source of energy with its 9 calories/gram vs the 4 calories/gram in protein and 4 calories/gram in carbs. And if you add exercise in your diet, the carbs you will sweat out! And not only did I lose weight & gain energy but also all of my blood test were excellent!!! * Ghenghis john If you eat any of those foods, even once, you will surely die. It is a proven fact. * NorthboroughDan Processed “health foods” are not so great? Shocking. Never trust Industrial Food. And go light on the tuna. Check. * HowardLane Y’all are so lucky to have the ability to pick & choose your diets. I’m lactose intolerant, allergic to wheat ( not gluten ), allergic to pepper & sugar raises my blood pressure. You cannot imagine how many times I just stand in the kitchen scratching my head. + http://www.hookedonhealth.co Hooked on Health Sounds like you need to go paleo. There are lots of blogs with great recipes. Just google it. * Rhett J D. Fats and proteins is what we really need being lied to about the other shit for years, cholesterol is not affected by fats its by sugar that spikes it. * Steven Bilbo ummm,,,, so you all fallow this????? * Steven Bilbo show me a 100 year old vegan or vegitarian rofl * Erohiel Just because yogurt contains lots of sugar does NOT make it bad for you. Not EVERYONE consumes too much sugar. Sugar, like most things, is not inherently bad for you. Dairy is extremely good for you, whether it contains lots of sugar or lots of fat. And an ENERGY bar is for ENERGY. You can’t get ENERGY without calories. If you’re trying to reduce your calorie intake, anyone with a brain should know not to eat things that are supposed to increase energy only. The idea is a BALANCE not ‘avoid this ingredient like the plague’, and then everything comes down to what an individual needs. We need to get away from all this horrible misinformation like these articles. * tammytnt Like your dog * thisfoodcultureisshit because energy bars are “small”, people will feel hungry soon after eating them. Is that really how you think food works? * Vulcanlogix This article is dumber than even the average Yahoo article, and that isn’t easy. Anybody who knows anything at all about nutrition wouldn’t think that any of these “food” items, except for the yogurt, is healthy or nutritious. As for no/low fat plain yogurt, taste isn’t the issue as much as texture – watery with soft clots. Switching to fat free greek yogurt is a major improvement in that regard. Surprisingly, Walmart’s Great Value brand is, IMHO, one of the better brands available because it isn’t nearly as sour as everything else I’ve tried, has a thick, smooth texture, and it tastes a bit like cream cheese. The common denominator with these products is that they’re manufactured. If you really want to sharply reduce your intake of bad things such as chemicals, hormones, allergens, refined sugar, sodium and anything else on your personal list, then don’t eat manufacured food, and stay out of restaurants. Make things yourself from whole, fresh ingredients, organic when available. Wash fruits and vegetables, even locally grown and organic. And do your own research. Most of the so-called studies and the conclusions drawn from them are irresponsible, poorly thought out bullshirt, as is obvious when they reverse themselves weekly. * John L. Lee 55 years ago I grew up dining on fast food on the weekends, which was not as toxic as today’s McCrap! There were NO chain fast food places in those years. I’m 71 now and still like a little junk burger now and then, but do not make a steady diet of it. As a kid, I used to go to a place in Berkeley called Bobo’s; you could get 10 burgers or 10 milkshakes for $1 when they had a sale. Otherwise everything was normally 15 cents each. You could feed a car full of hungry teenagers for $3-$4 and have enough left over for 1/2 tank of gas We called them Ratburgers, but they did the trick! By the way Gas was 18 cents a gallon when on sale at Simas Bros. * http://enria.org/ Zee Flynn Energy bars, trail mix, etc. are all fine. The problem is most “dieters” wash them down with soda and eat mountains of it or other items and claim the “diet” food doesn’t work. Chew each bite 100 times, eat to 80% full and no food after 7 pm and you’ll lose all the weight that is unhealthy in short order. Only in America are portions “super sized”, along with the people. See a connection here? * tevra Ever hear of moderation? no food is healthy or unhealthy in and of itself. take and imbibe all things in moderation and you will be fine. and most important don’t pay much attention to articles from the internet * josephz2va The protein bars vary on who is marketing it. Quest Cravings / Quest Bars I buy from my gym contain almost zero sugar. * Ronnie S Houser A majority of this list is complete BS… It comes down to portion size and knowing what not to eat at certain times. Everyone’s body is different. * stangmfl There is so much nebulous ambiguity in all these lists, no wonder even if one is REALLY trying to lose weight, after reading a few of these ,from different studies, you can explode from frustration. One that always is imbedded somewhere in the info. is diet sodas. No empirical evidence for it contributing to weight gain, or stopping weight loss, always that shaky ‘it may cause you to want more’. I know how I lost and gained weight, and everyone’s story and remedy is valid if it works/worked for them. * WakeForestYankee Positive net calories = weight gain; negative net calories = weight loss. It’s no more complex than that. * ModernCaveFamily Per Mark S. everything you eat should be edible raw means: Don’t eat food that MUST be cooked to be consumed (i.e you can not eat uncooked wheat, rice, barley) it is just a metric of judging what you “should ” eat. beets are edible raw, but we prefer to eat them roasted therefore beets are “Paleo approved” Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw but we like them cooked-sweet potatoes = “paleo approved” The rule I follow is, if it is food we eat it, if it is a food like product we don’t. We eat a lot of vegetable (cooked and raw) We don’t eat food product bread, pasta, fruit gummy snacks, candy, frozen things that come in boxes, frozen Chinese, or Mexican dinners, lasagna, pizza. + WingedWolfPsion Yes, you’ve repeated the big flaw I was talking about – the idea that everything should be edible when raw. That’s not how our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, and it’s not how the species that came before them ate, either. There have always been some foods in the human diet that were toxic or unpalatable when raw, but edible when cooked. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with those foods. Paleolithic peoples would have, and likely did, cook and eat them. List of foods toxic when raw: Cashews Bitter almonds Kidney beans Lima beans Soybean Elderberries Cassava guelder rose fruit Unpalatable raw: Plantain quince crab apple some cherries sloe The list goes on. Just a few examples, here. + PDuncan12345 Oh my god, here we go again. How is rice, or wheat, or barley not food but only “food like”? And pasta isn’t food either? Will you eat a cow… that has been FED grain? I bet you do. You poor poor family. Never a blueberry pancake, never an English muffin. No Cheerios, no turkey spinach lasagna. No tuna sandwiches, no garlic bread. Not a corn dog in the house. Or are frankfurters food? They’re not a grain, they can be cooked but don’t have to be, and they incorporate every part of the animal they’re made from. I’ll bet you’d eat a wiener but you won’t eat a pizza… even though pizzas have been proven to be extremely nutritious. The total and utter brainwashing that goes on in the diet industry just astounds me. For the record, when you eat a piece of meat, you also eat whatever that animal eats!!! * http://gigieatscelebrities.com/ GiGi Eats Celebrities I could not agree MORE with this list!!!!! * disqus_N4ylfpodZI The best way to make popcorn is to put a couple of handfuls of organic popcorn in a brown paper bag and put it in the microwave for about three minutes. I add a little butter (not margarine) and sea salt and it’s better than any of the prepackaged crap they sell and a lot cheaper. * paul koester Organic natural foods . Raw and unprocessed whenever posable Plenty of water and sleep. And 30 minutes a day banging the heavy bag ! * Keith B. Rosenberg And why are all of those unhealthy things added to so-called “healthy” food? Because so much of the healthy food is more or less inedible all by itself. Rolled oats are a lot like cardboard before making them onto oatmeal and cookies. * Robert W so butane and propane are ok octane heptane might as well use alcohol then seem more food grade * Robert W i think we need to add mushrooms back into our diet that monotonous ubiquitous white button mushroom seems unnatural doesn’t it + spunkysmum Gross. * JOHN JONES Regardless, anything in EXCESS IS BAD FOR YOU. No matter what they say. You too much..you’ll gain. * SandyTodd Fat, per serving, has more calories. I can eat a cup of Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream, 430 calories. I can eat a cup of Umpqua Nonfat Frozen Yogurt, which is very creamy and tasty, 164 calories. The fat content matters. I’ll use my fat to butter an English muffin for breakfast. * Manuel Uribe Eat like Jack LaLanne, do a little exercise, and you’ll be fine. The rest of everything else here is just noise. 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Here are some foods that every woman must include in her diet... Flax seeds IFRAME: adshowbtm Have flax seeds daily for overall good health. They are a good source of Omega-3 fatty acids and are known to reduce the risk of heart disease and breast cancer. They also have anti-inflammatory properties that prevent arthritis, apart from digestive properties which help ease irritable bowel syndrome. Salmon Not only is salmon rich in iron, which is usually lacking in women, but it is also full of omega-3 fatty acids, known to improve your mood. Experts say that omega-3 helps treat depression and prevent mood swings. Cranberries Certain studies over the years have found a link between eating cranberries and how it reduces the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. Also, they have the ability to prevent and cure urinary tract infections. Have a glass of cranberry juice every other day. Spinach While this might not be a much-loved food, spinach is packed with a host of vitamins, minerals and high amounts of magnesium. And magnesium is known to help reduce the physical symptoms of PMS like swelling, breast tenderness, bloating and weight gain. Walnuts Experts say that walnuts have omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and phytosterols — all important in reducing the risk of breast cancer. The high omega-3 content also helps bone health, arthritis and depression. Walnuts also comprise nutrients like calcium, magnesium and folic acid. Oats Oats are bursting with health-boosting nutrients, great for female health. They keep your heart healthy, are great for digestion, keep blood pressure levels in check and also contain vitamin B6, which helps prevent PMS and mood swings. Another component — folic acid — prevents birth defects in babies and is essential for women during and after pregnancy. Milk Calcium deficiency is one of the major health concerns that affects women worldwide. Milk is an absolute must for women at any age. A great source of calcium, milk, when combined with vitamin D, is one of the best ways to keep osteoporosis at bay. Milk is also helpful in preventing symptoms of the dreaded PMS. Tomatoes A carotenoid that is essential for good health is lycopene, which is a pigment found in tomatoes. And several studies have said that lycopene can help prevent breast cancer. Apart from this, there is also evidence that suggests that it reduces the risk of heart disease. (Compiled by Zeenia F Baria) Article continues Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App. Click here to download it for your device. 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These five groups and typical minimum servings are: * Vegetables: 3-5 servings per day. A serving may consist of 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables, 3/4 cup of vegetable juice, or 1/2 cup of other vegetables, chopped raw or cooked. * Fruits: 2-4 servings per day. A serving may consist of 1/2 cup of sliced fruit, 3/4 cup of fruit juice, or a medium-size whole fruit, like an apple, banana, or pear. * Bread, cereal, or pasta: 6-11 servings per day. Each serving should equal 1 slice of bread, 1/2 cup of rice or pasta, or 1 ounce of cereal. * Protein foods: 2-3 servings of 2-3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish per day. A serving in this group may also consist of 1/2 cup of cooked dry beans, one egg, or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter for each ounce of lean meat. * Dairy products: 2-3 servings per day of 1 cup of low-fat milk or yogurt, or 1 1/2 ounces of natural cheese. Fiber Fiber is a carbohydrate component of plant foods that is usually un-digestible. It is found in foods like fruits, vegetables, whole-grain breads, cereals, brown rice, beans, seeds, and nuts. In adults, increased fiber has been linked with a reduction of chronic gastrointestinal problems, including colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and diverticulitis. In children, however, fiber's only proven benefit is its ability to ease constipation—providing bulk that can promote regular frequency of bowel movements, soften the stools, and decrease the time it takes food to travel through the intestines. However, since food preferences and eating habits may be established early in life, and since high-fiber foods contain other nutrients, parents should include these foods in children's daily diets. Protein Your child requires protein for the proper growth and functioning of his body, including building new tissues and producing antibodies that help battle infections. Without essential amino acids (the building blocks of protein), children would be much more susceptible to serious diseases. Protein-rich plants—such as dried beans and peas (legumes), grains, seeds, and nuts—can be used as valuable sources of protein. Other protein-rich foods include meat, fish, milk, yogurt, cheese, and eggs. These animal products contain high-quality protein and a full array of amino acids. Bear in mind, however, that red meat and shellfish are not only rich in protein and an important source of iron but are high in fat and cholesterol as well. Thus, your child should consume them only in moderate amounts. Select lean cuts of meat and trim the fat before cooking. Likewise, remove skin from poultry, and excess fat from fish, before serving. Fat Humans cannot live without fats. They are a concentrated source of energy, providing essential fatty acids that are necessary for a variety of bodily processes (metabolism, blood clotting, and vitamin absorption). However, high fat intake—particularly a diet high in saturated fats—can cause problems. Saturated fats are usually solid at room temperatures and are found in fatty meats (such as beef, pork, ham, veal, and lamb) and many dairy products (whole milk, cheese, and ice cream). They can contribute to the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques and lead to coronary artery disease later in life. A diet rich in saturated fats also can increase blood cholesterol, particularly in people who have inherited a tendency toward high cholesterol levels. For that reason, after age two, children should be served foods that are lower in fat and saturated fats. Chances are that your child's favorite foods are higher in fat than is desirable. Prudent eating means relying more on low-fat, low-cholesterol foods like poultry, fish, and lean meat (broiled, baked, or roasted; not fried), soft margarine (instead of butter), low-fat dairy products, and low-saturated-fat oils from vegetables, while limiting egg consumption. As a general guideline, fats should make up less than 30 percent of the calories in your child's diet, with no more than about one third or less of those fat calories coming from saturated fat, and the remainder from unsaturated (that is, polyunsaturated or monounsaturated) fats, which are liquid at room temperature and include vegetable oils like corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, and olive. Some parents find the information about various types of fat confusing. In general, oils and fats derived from animal origin are saturated. The simplest place to start is merely to reduce the amount of fatty foods of all types in your family's diet. Sugar Keep your child's sugar consumption at moderate levels. Sugar has plenty of calories, but dietitians often call them empty calories because they have very little additional nutritional value. Even so, many children consume sugar in great quantities, usually at the expense of healthier foods—that is, when youngsters drink sodas, they are usually leaving the milk in the refrigerator; when they eat a brownie, they may be overlooking the bowl of fruit, a good source of complex carbohydrates, on the kitchen table. Salt Table salt, or sodium chloride, may improve the taste of certain foods. However, researchers have found a relationship between dietary salt and high blood pressure in some individuals and population groups. High blood pressure afflicts about 25 percent of adult Americans and contributes to heart attacks and strokes. The habit of using extra salt is an acquired one. Thus, as much as possible, serve your child foods low in salt. In the kitchen, minimize the amount of salt you add to food during its preparation, using herbs, spices, or lemon juice instead. Also, take the salt shaker off the dinner table, or at least limit its use by your family. Because of the preservative properties of salt, processed foods often contain large amounts of it. Salt-rich foods may include processed cheese, instant puddings, canned vegetables, canned soups, hot dogs, cottage cheese, salad dressings, pickles, and potato chips and other snacks For additional information, see Reducing Sodium in Children’s Diets (CDC Vital Signs Fact Sheet).​ Making Healthier Food Choices Eat more often Eat only occasionally Baked potato French Fries Low-fat frozen yogurt Ice Cream Baked or grilled chicken Fried Chicken Bagels or English muffins Doughnuts and pasteries Graham crackers, fig bars, vanilla wafers Chocolate chip cookies Pretzels, plain popcorn Potato chips Last Updated 9/9/2014 Source Adapted from Caring for your School-Age Child: Ages 5 to 12 (Copyright © 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics) The information contained on this Web site should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician. 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After graduating pre-med from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Koch delayed enrollment to the Albert Einstein Medical School to launch a successful entertainment company with his brother. Despite his corporate success, Koch still felt the need to attend to the health and wellness of others. He sold his stake in the entertainment business and began 10 years of wellness study with the likes of Drs. Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra and raw food guru David Wolfe. After becoming a certified nutritionist, Koch created Clean Plates as a resource for his clients who wanted to have access to healthy food options on-the-go. First written as a guide to Manhattan’s healthiest eateries, the book has since expanded to include restaurants in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. 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After I sold the entertainment business I ran with my brother, I started studying nutrition and got certified as a nutritional consultant through the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York. I also teach meditation. I am very dedicated to making it easier and more enjoyable for people to eat and live healthier. My future health projects: We’re launching an iPhone app this month, as well as a brand new Clean Plates Web site with more editorial content than ever before. I’m also working on a book to be published by Running Press, which will be released in Fall 2012. My favorite healthy habit: Cooking and eating deliciously prepared vegetables. I honestly crave vegetables if I go a little while without eating them. I also love fruit. My health hero: People who make the choice and effort to put better quality foods into their bodies. 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According to experts, the answer is yes. James Twyman, a bestselling author who believes people can attract everything they want in life, agrees that how people think can propel their life for better or worse. He feels that in addition to saying positive things (many people select mantras that they say repeatedly), individuals must also truly believe in what they are saying. In other words, what people think about what they say must be met with a genuine desire and belief in order for the desired outcome to be fully realized. He's not alone. Esther Hicks, who encourages others with words of positivity stemming from the inspirational guidance of Abraham-Hicks, says that thoughts can guide us in ways people may not typically consider. Sure, winning the lottery might be nice, or falling in love with that certain someone would be dandy, but what about eating healthy foods? How positive thoughts lead to healthy food choices Hicks explains that positive thinking (or not) is directly related to the foods people choose to eat. People who regularly think bad, woe-is-me thoughts tend to want to fuel their bodies with things that are just as negative. She explains that it all comes down to staying in tune with the body by "living harmoniously." Much of this has to do with taking responsibility that thoughts lead people to choose certain foods which either help or harm health. Therefore, she makes the argument that it isn't a specific food or set of foods that can be detrimental to health per se, but rather the mindset a person has in the first place that propels them to make bad eating decisions. Therefore, Hicks says people should "stop the 'outside-in' approach" of making lists of what foods we should eat and instead "get in alignment with who [we] really are and let who we really are choose [our] food." Studies published in the Journal of Food Psychology reinforce what these experts say. Researchers at Cornell University Food and Brand Lab found that people eat " . . . healthy or indulgent foods depending on whether they are in a good or a bad mood" and that ". . . individuals in positive moods who make healthier food choices are often thinking more about future health benefits than those in negative moods, who focus more on the immediate taste and sensory experience." Now, pass that bowl of fresh, organic fruit please! Sources for this article include: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/op/moodfood http://www.naturalnews.com http://rawandnaturalhealth.com http://www.jamestwyman.com/index.html About the author: A science enthusiast with a keen interest in health nutrition, Antonia has been intensely researching various dieting routines for several years now, weighing their highs and their lows, to bring readers the most interesting info and news in the field. 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